The Crooked Lawyer Author:James E. Pat Patterson Kate Donnellan, a Deputy DA in L.A., is assigned the case of Bunny Love, a young woman whose body washed up on a beach near Marina del Rey. — A suspect is soon in custody; a homeless man who is linked to the victim by DNA evidence. It looks like an open-and-shut case, but there are too many things that don't add up for Kate. What ... more »is a homeless man doing with a high-powered defense attorney and why was the attorney so willing to turn him over to the police?
When her own office is uninterested in investigating further, Kate continues on her own, helped by a journalist who soon becomes more than just a friend, and by her father and his old partner, both retired from L.A.P.D.
The further Kate looks, the deeper the corruption seems to go....
Author J. E. 'Pat' Patterson is a retired municipal court judge with experience as an investigator for the L. A. District Attorney's office, a deputy prosecutor, and criminal defense attorney. « less