{"series":[{"isLibrarianView":false,"book":{"imageUrl":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1494462964i/35111710._SY180_.jpg","bookId":"35111710","workId":"56421904","bookUrl":"/book/show/35111710-millie-s-lament","from_search":false,"from_srp":false,"qid":null,"rank":null,"title":"Millie's Lament (Bert Spagnoli Cases, #1)","bookTitleBare":"Millie's Lament","numPages":308,"avgRating":5.0,"ratingsCount":2,"author":{"id":481451,"name":"Richard Galli","isGoodreadsAuthor":false,"profileUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/481451.Richard_Galli","worksListUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/481451.Richard_Galli"},"kcrPreviewUrl":null,"description":{"truncatedHtml":"A LEGAL THRILLER WITH A COMIC TWIST

/// AN IMPROB…","html":"A LEGAL THRILLER WITH A COMIC TWIST

/// AN IMPROBABLY EXPLOSIVE PLOT:
After a taxi's rear bumper gets bumped, a beguiling young woman and two battling lawyers find themselves in a dangerous dance that hour by hour spins out of control:
-- A powerful lawyer dares to play games with the local mob.
-- A young mob lawyer knows guns but uses his brains instead.
-- His pretentious Ivy League adversary has to lose his way to victory.
-- The scorned young woman with an explosive secret retaliates against big-shot men — by giving them exactly what they want.
-- Clumsy mob enforcers are hired to stop her.

This is not your average fender bender intersection accident case!

/// BRILLIANT CHARACTERS:
-- A talented, wise-cracking mob son rising above his roots, but keeping his dangerous family close.
-- Women with grit who defy their labels and stand their ground.
-- Mighty men wrecked by their own arrogance.
-- Hired thugs scared silly by their victims.
-- A gun-toting retired librarian.
-- A parish priest with the instincts of a rattlesnake.
-- A proud old horse who munches an occasional finger with his apple slices.

/// WRITING AS SLICK AS OILED ICE:
-- Time flies so fast it’s almost never mentioned.
-- The humor is sharp, quick and constant.
-- The plot is compact and the world familiar.
-- It’s an almost unbelievable story - because you’ve never read a story like it.

SYNOPSIS:
-- Martin Reynolds, a negligent driver’s uber-confident lawyer, thinks he can make Millicent Simmons settle her insignificant fender bender accident case for peanuts, if he can frighten Millie and her inexperienced sidewalk lawyer at Millie's deposition.
--Without warning, Millie's insignificant fender bender case explodes in Martin Reynolds' face. Within seconds, he learns that Millie has been harboring a secret, and from that instant on it will be Martin’s impossible task to keep that secret from blowing up his world.
-- Suddenly Martin’s job at the law firm is at risk; and possibly Martin’s career; and certainly his engagement to marry the vivacious daughter of his tyrannical boss.
-- In a few hours Martin’s life will be in danger, as will Millie’s life; and her easy-going lawyer Bert Spagnoli's life will also be threatened by mob enforcers.
-- Millie Simmons defiantly stands her ground as her secret transforms a routine fender bender case into a full-blown crisis.
-- The most powerful lawyer in town is the primary victim of Millie’s secret, and he resolves to crush her by any means.
-- But the family of Millie’s own lawyer — Bert Spagnoli — runs the local mob... and worlds collide.
-- It’s the first big case of Bert Spagnoli’s legal career; his client is vulnerable and under attack; a tsunami wave of scandal is building; and Bert is matched against the city’s biggest law firm; but Bert surfs the crashing wave with legal skill, tactical imagination, street smarts — and a lot of smiles and chuckles.
-- Time flies as smart young lawyers battle each other and then team up; clumsy out-of-town mobsters invade hometown mobster turf; a rogue thug tries to kill Millie and her parish priest; and cast-iron frying pans help solve life-altering problems."},"textReviewsCount":1,"publicationDate":"","toBePublished":null,"editions":"1 edition","editionsUrl":"/work/editions/56421904-millie-s-lament-bert-spagnoli-cases-1"}}],"seriesHeaders":["Book 1"]}

Bert Spagnoli Cases Series

Book 1

Shelve Millie's Lament