Seven Shadows
A Dana Hargrove Legal Mystery
by V.S. Kemanis
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Pub Date 28 Jan 2020 | Archive Date 16 Mar 2020
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Description
A criminal prosecutor is bound to make a few enemies over a decades-long career, and Dana Hargrove is no exception. Who has it in for her?
In 2015, the former prosecutor is in her second year as a trial judge in Manhattan. It’s a new world. Dana cut her baby teeth in the DA’s office during the crack epidemic, the ’80s and early ’90s. Now, the murder rate is a fraction of what it was, and public opinion about incarceration is softening. So is Dana. As a judge, she agonizes over every sentencing decision before her.
Midlife has also hit Dana hard on a personal level. She misses her children and adjusts to the empty nest by immersing herself in work. Instead of growing closer to her husband Evan, their relationship becomes strained. What is happening to them?
Tension builds as Judge Hargrove presides over two high-stakes media cases. The defendants: a glamorous dot-com millionaire who killed her business partner, and an orthopedist who runs a deadly pill mill. In the public mail bag, the judge receives a message from an anonymous crank.
Then her family starts getting letters that sound all too personal. Someone with an agenda is harassing and shadowing Dana and her loved ones.
In Seven Shadows, the judge and her pursuer are on a collision course meant to teach Dana the meaning of empathy and the value of the people she cherishes most.
Advance Praise
“[An] involving mystery… Tension mounts and leads to a climactic confrontation that is surprisingly different… Author Kemanis has created an engaging plot on which to build her narrative—one chock full of technical legal expertise. Yet it is the emotional tributaries that flow from that plot that give this story a greater sense of literary weight. By honestly exploring the intimate feelings of her characters, she lifts this tale to a level above the average mystery. RECOMMENDED.” The U.S. Review of Books
(https://www.theusreview.com/reviews/Seven-Shadows-by-V-S-Kemanis.html#.XhVCFchKjD4)"
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9780999785041 |
| PRICE | US$5.99 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Jacqui H, Reviewer
A dense drama in the legal world. Senior Judge Dana Hargrove has two complex cases on her file as well as family issues - children left home for Uni, husband Evan a Professor of Law at the local University and she's suffering from the menopause. Her way of coping is to work harder. Her younger sister is a media super star and has a young child whose absent father now wants to return to the family, probably because of the money now available to him. Dana's husband has to cope with a lazy student who thinks he's the bees knees and deserves A's all round and is, essentially, stalking Evan. The sister has to cope with an ever increasingly abusive former partner. Dana has to work out what really matters. It's a complex, legalistic and well-written book. Thanks to NetGalley and Opus Nine Books for an advance copy in exchange for my honest review.
Linda S, Reviewer
Judge Dana Hargrove is presiding over two extremely complex media cases. In one, a well known dot-com billionaire charged with killing her business partner. the other case involves an Orthopedist with running a pill mill, which has caused multiple deaths.
Someone doesn't want her hearing these cases. When she receives an anonymous message and then her family starts getting letters that sound threatening, It seems that Dana and her family may have a stalker.
What does the stalker want? Is she in danger, as well as her family? How far will the stalker go to achieve their agenda?
It is obvious that this author has a background of being in the legal profession. The characters, the plot, the outstanding ending all are very much believable. The mystery is nicely paced and I enjoy how Dana's family life is blended with her professional life. Although third in this series, it is easily read as a stand alone. As always, I recommend starting at the beginning of this entertaining series.
Many thanks to the author / Opus Nine Books / Netgalley for the digital copy of this legal mystery. Read and reviewed voluntarily, opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.
Account D, Reviewer
I really enjoyed reading this it had what I wanted from a thriller novel and I really liked Dana Hargrove. She was an interesting character and I enjoyed going into this novel.
Reviewer 554257
It's not often a story takes you on a journey that when finished you sit for a moment and reflect quietly soaking up how wonderful the experience was. With judical procedures, family, ethics, doubt, marriage, and even menopause thrown into a mix that works so well shows how stories can take one to another place.
This is one of my best for 2020 V.S Kermanis take a bow.
An independent review thanks to NetGalley / Opus Nine
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