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Jailhouse Lawyer

By: James Patterson
Narrated by: Megan Tusing
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About this listen

Brought to you by Penguin.

Two brand-new legal thrillers in one book - from the authors of Juror No. 3

A young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown - and ends up behind bars...

In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, the most serious crimes are misdemeanors. Speeding tickets. Shoplifting. Contempt of court.

Then why is the jail so crowded? And why are so few prisoners released? There's only one place to learn the truth.

Sometimes the best education a lawyer can get is a short stretch of hard time.
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Praise for James Patterson

'The master storyteller of our times' Hillary Rodham Clinton
'One of the greatest storytellers of all time' Patricia Cornwell
'James Patterson is The Boss. End of.' Ian Rankin
'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent' Lee Child
'Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind.' Michael Connelly

© James Patterson 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

 Crime Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Thriller Thriller & Suspense Law

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Critic reviews

I couldn't put down Jailhouse Lawyer, a page-turning legal thriller that exposes a headline-making crisis in the American courts: the new debtors' prisons, where an inability to pay court costs sentences poor people to jail, with devastating consequences. (TONY MESSENGER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author)
Patterson knows where our deepest fears are buried... there's no stopping his imagination. (NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW)
No one gets this big without natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. (LEE CHILD, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series)
Patterson boils a scene down to a single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind. (MICHAEL CONNELLY)
James Patterson is the boss. End of. (IAN RANKIN, bestselling author of the Inspector Rebus series)
James Patterson is the gold standard by which all others are judged. (STEVE BERRY, bestselling author of the Colton Malone series)
Patterson is in a class by himself. (VANITY FAIR)
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I found the books a little disappointing, the stories were slow paced and I found the narration a little off putting.
My biggest annoyance was the writing of the main characters in each book, both women have been written to be overly emotional and needy which is a poor reflection on how women really are! The characters are successful lawyers they are not going to be fighting the need to break down every 5 minutes!

poor representation of women

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Another great read from one of my favourite authors. Never disappoints.
This one was gripping I listened to it and couldn't stop till I reached the end. Thank you Mr. Patterson and Co authors

Thrilling

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WOW what a terrific performance was a superbly magnificent story line with a twist at the end I did not see coming👍

Fantastic

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Brilliant story, it was the harshness of the narrators voice that almost had me give up.

Brilliant story, didn’t love the narrator

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Weak and hardly credible story, wanders around and when we fInally reach a conclusion, it’s a little anti-climactic. Shame really

Not the normal quality of writing

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