Yes, this is the second book in this series and it is as much about family as it is about Mike and Rosie’s case. Rosie says that sleeping with your ex-husband beats sleeping alone, but not by much." "While we’re both willing to admit that the current state of our domestic situation is somewhat less than optimal, everyone gets lonely. Somebody will probably name a 12-step program after us." We aren’t a law firm- we’re a support group. "I look around the table: my ex-wife, my ex-girlfriend and me. Its riveting blend of inside knowledge, powerful suspense, courtroom intrigue, and ironic humor makes Incriminating Evidence an edge-of-the-seat novel that will hold readers from the very first page to its startling denouement. Mike and Rosie chase down trails that take them from the lowest depths of the Mission District, where drugs and bodies are always for sale, to the gated mansions of Pacific Heights, all the while contending with a trial that gets under way even as they are frantically trying to piece together what is really at stake in the case against Gates. There's a campaign manager with his own dirty secrets, a shady Internet entrepreneur who trades flesh for cash, a prominent businessman who uses muscle to keep his enterprise prospering. An array of influential power brokers is all too ready to cover questionable activities that may - or may not - connect with the victim. Sure enough, the deeper they dig, the seamier their findings. But even if he's lying, it's their job to defend him, and that means finding out what really happened. The prosecutors are already talking the death penalty, and there's nothing in the mounting evidence, and certainly not in Gates's unpersuasive denials, to convince Daley and his partner (and ex-wife) Rosie of his innocence. The details that continue to emerge from the crime scene are tabloid heaven. It seems that a couple of hours earlier he woke up in an armchair in his hotel room and found the dead body of a young male prostitute in the bed. But Gates needs Daley now - and needs him badly. Friends they're not Skipper Gates had led the charge to get Mike fired from his job as a partner in a prestigious law firm. It starts with a phone call Mike Daley never expected to get, from District Attorney Prentice Marshall Gates III, San Francisco's chief law enforcement officer and front-runner candidate for California attorney general. Now Sheldon Siegel delivers a new challenge for defense attorney Mike Daley - ex-priest, ex-husband, ex-public defender - and it's a high-profile zinger: a case he doesn't think he can win for a client he can't stand. Special Circumstances introduced an exciting new voice in legal fiction - a talent so original, it drew comparisons with the very top tier of courtroom thriller writers.
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