An Insignificant Case, Phillip Margolin
An Insignificant Case, Phillip Margolin
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An Insignificant Case
A Thriller

Author: Phillip Margolin

Narrator: Peter Ganim

Unabridged: 7 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/05/2024


Synopsis

A new standalone legal thriller from the international bestselling author of GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN.

Charlie Webb is a third rate lawyer who graduated from a third rate law-school and, because he couldn’t get hired by any of the major law firms, has opened his own law firm, where he gets by handling cases for dubious associates from his youth and some court appointed cases. Described as “a leaky boat floating down the stream of life,” Charlie has led unremarkable life, personally and professionally. Until he’s appointed to be the attorney for a decidedly crackpot artist who calls himself Guido Sabatini (born Lawrence Weiss). Sabatini has been arrested – again – for breaking into a restaurant and stealing back a painting he sold them because he was insulted by where it was displayed. But as Lawrence Weiss, he’s also an accomplished card shark and burglar and while he was there, he stole a thumb drive from the owner’s safe.

Not knowing what else Sabatani has stolen, Webb negotiates the return of the painting and “other items’ for the owner dropping charges against Sabatini. But the contents of the flash drive threatens very powerful figures who are determined to retrieve it, the restaurant owner (Gretchen Hall) and her driver (Yuri Makarov) are being investigated for the sex trafficking of minors, and there are others who have a violent grudge against Sabatini. When a minor theft case becomes a double homicide, and even more, Charlie Webb, an insignificant lawyer assigned to an insignificant case, is faced with the most important, and deadliest, case of his life. Going back to his long-time bestselling roots, Phillip Margolin returns with a brilliant standalone legal thriller in the tradition of John Grisham.

A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books.

About Phillip Margolin

PHILLIP MARGOLIN has written over twenty-five novels, most of them New York Times bestsellers, including Gone But Not Forgotten, Lost Lake, and Violent Crimes. In addition to being a novelist, he was a long time criminal defense attorney with decades of trial experience, including a large number of capital cases. Margolin lives in Portland, Oregon.


Reviews

Goodreads review by PamG

My 4.2 rounded to 4 stars review is coming soon.......more

Goodreads review by Jayne

There were some pretty significant issues in "An Insignificant Case". TW: Child trafficking. A significant portion of this book was eerily similar to the Harvey Weinstein case. Underaged girls were not cast in productions without producing sexual favors. I listened to the audiobook. Even though the book......more


Quotes

"Margolin deals out the complications as deftly as a card shark... An inventive legal thriller." —Kirkus Reviews