Face Value, Michael A. Kahn
Face Value, Michael A. Kahn
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Face Value
A Rachel Gold Mystery

Author: Michael A. Kahn

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Unabridged: 7 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/03/2014


Synopsis

As St. Louis attorney Rachel Gold knows firsthand, the grueling hours and demands of Big Law take their toll on young lawyers. Some turn to drugs, some quit the profession, and occasionally one quits altogether. According to the medical examiner, Sari Bashir quit altogether that Thursday night when she fell to her death from the eighth floor of the downtown garage where she parked her car.The police ruled her death a suicide. Stanley Plotkin, however, rules it a homicide. Stanley is the weird mail-room clerk at Sari's law firm, but he is also a genius. Among his obsessions is the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), a massive compilation that correlates hundreds of facial muscle actions with specific emotions and mental states. For someone like Stanley, whose Asperger's syndrome renders him incapable of intuiting emotions from facial expressions, his mastery of FACS has caused him to conclude that Sari did not kill herself.Rachel was close with Sari, who worked for her during law school. She also knows Stanley—and his quirkiness and genius—because their mothers are friends. Thus when Stanley announces his conclusion to Rachel as she drives him home from Sari's memorial service, she can't simply dismiss it. And when Sari's father pleads with Rachel to review the police file on his daughter's suicide, she reluctantly starts down a path that will lead into the heart of a dark criminal enterprise in which Sari was simply collateral damage.

About Michael A. Kahn

Michael A. Kahn, a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, is a trial lawyer, a professor of law at Washington University in Saint Louis, and the award-winning author of the Rachel Gold mystery novels.

About Hillary Huber

Hillary Huber is one of the most successful voice talents in Los Angeles. Recent books read for Blackstone Audio include Him, Her, Him Again, the End of Him by Patricia Marx, A Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read, and A Map of Glass by Jane Urquhart.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Steve on August 03, 2018

Almost all of this book is recycled material from other books, with the great exception of Stanley and FACS. Might be time to pack in the series.......more

Goodreads review by Bill on December 05, 2022

OK read just light entertainment kept me interested......more

Goodreads review by Sara on February 25, 2023

3.5 .5 for being set in St.Louis......more

Goodreads review by Christine on June 16, 2014

A young attorney has fallen from the eighth floor of a parking garage next to her law firm. It appears to be a suicide, but a friend who has Asperger’s but is a genius in the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) insists Sari has been murdered. St. Louis attorney Rachel Gold becomes involved in the cas......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on September 27, 2014

The author, Michael Kahn, is a St Louis lawyer and is on the faculty of Washington University School of Law. When he is not practicing law or teaching it, he writes the Rachel Gold mysteries. I like reading the Rachel Gold series by Michael Kahn because they feature the main character living in St Lo......more


Quotes

“Michael Kahn is a wordsmith with some great turns of phrase, humorous descriptions, and catchy dialogue, a lawyer who knows the ins and outs of the law and the skinny on how it’s done.” Steve Martini, New York Times bestselling author

“Engaging…Ample humor and skillful dialogue—about legal, financial, and scientific matters—are a plus, as is the expertly evoked St. Louis locale.” Publishers Weekly

“Rachel’s fans will enjoy her latest case, which highlights the consequences of greed as well as the abilities of the disabled.” Booklist