Defenseless

by Celeste Marsella

They’re overworked, underpaid, and four young women in a big-city attorney general’s office. But when best friends Marianna, Laurie, Shannon, and Beth find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time, it’s not just their careers that are in danger—it’s their lives.

It’s after midnight when a young coed’s body is thrown from a car—right before their eyes. When their boss finds out that their presence at the scene might jeopardize the prosecution, Marianna takes the fall, exiled to a job inside an ivy-walled private college—where the murdered girl had been a student. Suddenly Marianna is in the eye of the storm alone as a vicious killer strikes again…and again. With no one to trust on either side of the law except themselves and a secretive ex-cop, Marianna, Laurie, Shannon, and Beth will have to join all their smarts, savvy, and loyalty to stop the killer from taking one of their own.…

404 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Julie Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

It took me a while to get into this book but once I did I loved it & could hardly put it down. I loved the gritty heroine in this book & her band of friends, & the perspective they have of working in the attorney generals office, It's not too often you meet such scrappy women! Love their dialogue. The writing is tight, the mystery clever. There's some great turns of phrase in this book, pieces of language that I re-read over because I loved the way they sounded & how clever they were.

Enjoyable!

[Sandy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really enjoyed the story but the main character was annoying.

[Samra Muslim · Rating 2 out of 5]

Chick-lit packaged as mystery!
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