A Case of Redemption is a worthy read! + Contest

Dan Sorenson used to be an attorney. Now he is just trying to figure out what he is going to do with his life after a drunk driver killed his wife and daughter. Dan is contacted by Nina. Nina’s company does work for Capital Punishment Records. Capital Punishment represents rapper, Legally Dead or L.D.


L.D. has been convicted of murdering his girlfriend. L.D. claims that he is innocent. Dan decides to take on the case as this just might be the fresh start that Dan needs. As Dan investigates the case, he wonders is L.D. guilty or innocent?

Another good book from Mr. Mitzner. I liked this book better then the first. I hope that the next one I like just the same as this one or better. Mr. Mitzner has found his niche in the criminal suspense genre and book world.

I liked Dan’s gruffness and take charge attitude. He did have a softer side as well when he remembers his dead wife and daughter. Also when he is around Nina. She balances him out and brings the best out of him again. The trial scenes were when Dan was at his best. Just when I thought it was all over, Mr. Mitzner adds one last twist to end this book. A Case of Redemption is a worthy read!

Prologue


By Adam Mitzner,

Author of A Case of Redemption

"Where should I start?"

This is what my clients would say, back when I had clients. And they'd say it with the utmost sincerity, as if they truly didn't know how to explain the circumstances that gave rise to their seeking out a criminal defense lawyer who charged a thousand bucks an hour.

It wasn't that they didn't know when the facts concerning the crime began, but they wanted to emphasize that there was a context, a preface to all that followed. By telling me they didn't know where to start, they were indicating that something came before they crossed the line into criminal conduct, and that was important, too.

So, where should I start?

Everything in my life -- the one I have now -- starts at the same point. Nearly two years ago, my wife and daughter were killed in a car accident. I've learned it's best to just come out with it like that. No amount of prefacing prepares people for the shock, and so I say it straightaway. I also tell them that the other driver was drunk, because if I don't, they invariably ask how it happened. And to cut off the next question, I volunteer that he also died at the scene. I keep to myself that the driver's death is but small solace, because it was instantaneous, which means that the son of a bitch didn't suffer.

Shortly after, I calculated how many minutes I'd been alive up to the exact moment of the accident. I used the calculator on my phone to go from the 1,440 minutes in a day to 43,200 in a thirty-day month, and then to the 525,600 in a non-leap year. My forty-one years, three months, four days, six hours, and twenty-nine minutes meant that I'd been alive for 21,699,749 minutes at the time of the accident, and up until that point nearly everything in my life had gone exactly according to plan. I'd gotten good grades, which led to acceptance at an Ivy League college, then a top-ten law school, a coveted judicial clerkship, employment at a top-tier law firm, and then the Holy Grail of partnership. My wife was beautiful and whip smart, and my daughter was, in a word, perfect.

And then, in the 21,699,749th minute, my life was shattered. Broken so utterly that it was impossible to know what it had even looked like intact.

That is the context, although obviously not all of it. Suffice it to say, when I met Legally Dead, the up-and-coming hip-hop artist accused of murdering his pop-star girlfriend, I was legally dead, too, and looking for someone or something to put life back into me.

The above is an excerpt from the book A Case of Redemption by Adam Mitzner. The above excerpt is a digitally scanned reproduction of text from print. Although this excerpt has been proofread, occasional errors may appear due to the scanning process. Please refer to the finished book for accuracy.

Copyright © 2013 Adam Mitzner, author of A Case of Redemption


Author Bio

Adam Mitzner, author of A Case of Redemption, a lawyer by day, is also the author of A Conflict of Interest, one of Suspense Magazine's Best Books of 2011. He lives in New York City.


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