The Third Victim: A Novel (Robin Lockwood, 1)

Margolin continues his return to the exceptional form of his early novels with this gripping, tightly plotted, and smoothly written legal thriller... A winner from a veteran genre author. ùBooklist The ômaster of heart-pounding suspenseö returns with a brand new series and a USA Today bestseller The Third Victim is New York Times bestseller Phillip Margolin at his very best. A woman stumbles onto a dark road in rural Oregonùtortured, battered, and bound. She tells a horrific story about being kidnapped, then tortured, until she finally managed to escape. She was the lucky oneùtwo other women, with similar burns and bruises, were found dead. The surviving victim identifies the house where she was held captive and the owner, Alex Masonùa prominent local attorneyùis arrested. Although he loudly insists upon his innocence, his wifeÆs statements about his sexual sadism and the physical evidence found at the scene, his summer home, is damning. Regina Barrister is a legendary criminal defense attorney, known as ôThe Sorceressö for her courtroom victories. But sheÆs got a secret, one that threatens her skill, her reputation, and, most of all, her clients. And sheÆs agreed to take on the seemingly impossible task of defending Alex Mason. Robin Lockwood, a young lawyer and former MMA fighter, has just left a clerkship at the Oregon Supreme Court to work for Regina Barrister. The Alex Mason trial is her first big one, a likely death penalty case, and sheÆs second chair to Regina. Increasingly, sheÆs worried her bossÆs behavior and the details in the case against their client donÆt quite add up.

• • Author: Phillip Margolin
• • Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
• • Publication Date: Oct 30, 2018
• • Number of Pages: 352 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• • ISBN-10: 1250118867
• • ISBN-13: 9781250118868