Heart of a Killer, David Rosenfelt
Heart of a Killer, David Rosenfelt
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Heart of a Killer
A Thriller

Author: David Rosenfelt

Narrator: Tadd Morgan

Unabridged: 7 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/15/2025

Synopsis

Jamie Wagner must free a convicted murderer so that she can save her dying daughter by taking her own life in Rosenfelt’s latest thriller. Jamie Wagner is a young lawyer who is happy to be flying under the radar at a large firm doing background research for the partners. It’s not that he isn’t smart. He is. It’s just that hard work, the whole legal world, isn’t really his thing. Underachiever? Yes. Content? At least until the firm puts him on a case that turns his whole world upside down. Sheryl Harrison has served four years of a thirty-year murder sentence for killing her husband who she claims abused her and her daughter Karen. The case is settled. There shouldn’t be anything for Jamie to do—except Karen is sick. She has a congenital heart defect and will die without a transplant, and her rare blood type makes the chance of finding a matching donor remote. Sheryl wants to be that donor, and Jamie is in way over his head. Suicide, no matter the motive, is illegal, and Sheryl is put on suicide watch. Jamie’s only shot at helping Sheryl and saving Karen is to reopen the murder case, prove Sheryl’s innocence, and get her freed so that she can pursue her plan on her own. A gripping story of an ordinary man faced with an impossible situation, David Rosenfelt’s latest is his most powerful thriller yet.

About David Rosenfelt

DAVID ROSENFELT is the Edgar-nominated and Shamus Award-winning author of more than twenty Andy Carpenter novels, including One Dog Night, Collared, and Deck the Hounds; its spinoff series, The K-Team; the Doug Brock thriller series, which starts with Fade to Black; and stand-alone thrillers including Heart of a Killer and On Borrowed Time. Rosenfelt and his wife live in Maine with an ever-changing pack of rescue dogs. Their epic cross-country move with 25 of these dogs, culminating in the creation of the Tara Foundation, is chronicled in Dogtripping.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Karen on December 03, 2024

For those of us who are Andy Carpenter fans, this is not that book. This is a completely different lawyer, completely different courtroom drama, and it definitely is a one-time only, non-series experience. Jamie is given a pro bono case by his firm – a young woman is serving a sentence for killing h......more

Goodreads review by James on April 28, 2012

Jamie Wagner is a young lawyer at a large firm on the fast track to nowhere, at least professionally. He knows that he's never going to make partner, which is okay by him because, while he's a really smart guy and a Harvard graduate, he's not all that ambitious. He's generally marking time and flyin......more

Goodreads review by Jim on October 21, 2014

I liked his Andy Carpenter series, a lawyer with the Golden Retriever, Tara, & I have to give Rosenfelt a lot of credit for running a dog rescue operation while writing crime novels. This might be the best book I've listened to by him, a stand alone. The main character is a rather lazy, directionless......more

Goodreads review by Carol on November 14, 2020

When the story begins the lawyer… Jamie Wagner is seriously thinking that maybe he should have listened to his father and chosen a different career…he’s clearly has had enough with his present law firm. To make matters worse he’s been assigned a pro-bono case that no one in their right mind would wa......more

Goodreads review by Chris on March 12, 2020

Wow kind of reminds me of Grisham's writing. Good story and with a little sass. Meet Cheryl and Karen Harrison, mother Terry, Jamie Wagner and Novak. Cheryl's daughter is dying and needs a heart transplant but the thing is she is of a rare blood type and her mother Cheryl is a perfect match. Cheryl......more

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