William J. Coughlin
ASIN: B01E7KRY20
Publisher: Lume Books
Pages: 465
Charley Sloan thought it was all behind him — his career, his wives, his drink problem. The colourful life he had once lived seemed a vague memory; he was now a regular at local AA meetings and was scraping by with work, using an office in a quiet and uneventful probate firm. There were no glamorous women, no exotic holidays and no flash cars. There was just Charley, sobriety, a rented studio and an old Ford Escort.Life was lonely without booze, but it was stable. That is, until the arrival of an expensive looking client in his shabby lawyer’s office…Robin Harwell — a sweetheart from High School with a favour to ask, and $20,000 to pay for it. Defend her step-daughter? No easy task when the charge is murder, the victim her husband and the defendant has already confessed … Angel — the rich little girl with celestial looks and a dead father’s blood on her hands. Innocent child, cool ...