R Barri Flowers

Persuasive Evidence: a Jordan La Fontaine Legal Thriller R Barri Flowers

Publisher Marketing: It is five years before the millennium and Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney Jordan La Fontaine is in line to be the next Chief of the Homicide Division Bureau. But Jordan's world turns upside down when her teenage son is accused of a double homicide and her competition for the post, Jerrod Wresler, is assigned to prosecute the case. She enlists the services of Simon McNeil, her late husband's law partner, to defend him. At the same time, Jordan is preparing to try a decorated Portland police detective, Graham Turner, accused of viciously murdering his ex-wife. Causing Jordan further grief is Turner's hardnosed partner, Detective Harry Coleman, who will stop at nothing to prove his innocence. As Jordan moves back and forth between the two tough cases and deals with issues in her personal life, she must use all of her resources to clear her son's name and convict a cop of murder. PERSUASIVE EVIDENCE is the first in an exciting new legal crime series from the bestselling author of STATE'S EVIDENCE and JUSTICE SERVED. Contributor Bio:  Flowers, R Barri R. Barri Flowers is an award winning criminologist and the bestselling author of such true crime books as The Sex Slave Murders, Serial Killer Couples, The Dynamics of Murder, Masters of True Crime, Murder of the Banker's Daughter, and Murder at the Pencil Factory. The author is also a bestselling mystery and thriller fiction author, including titles, Fractured Trust, Before He Kills Again, Dark Streets of Whitechapel, Murder in Honolulu, and State's Evidence. Follow R. Barri Flowers on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Goodreads, LibraryThing, and YouTube. Learn more about the author on Wikipedia and www.rbarriflowers.com.