Panthers Prey, Lachlan Smith
Panthers Prey, Lachlan Smith
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Panther's Prey

Author: Lachlan Smith

Narrator: R. C. Bray

Unabridged: 6 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/05/2016


Synopsis

After working to free his father from prison, Leo has left private practice and is working as a public defender. He and his co-counsel Jordan Walker are in the midst of a trial, defending Randall Rodriguez, a mentally ill homeless man whom they contend falsely confessed to the rape of a young San Francisco socialite. After their client is acquitted, Leo and Jordan fall into an intense relationship—until Jordan is found brutally raped and murdered in her apartment. Leo, the last person known to have seen her alive, is the natural suspect, and the police are eager for payback after the Rodriguez case. The story takes a turn when Leo and Jordan's freshly acquitted client goes to the police station and offers to confess to Jordan's murder. Upset by the rapidity with which the police accept this confession, Jordan's father asks Leo to investigate his daughter's death. Leo agrees, knowing exonerating Rodriguez will bring suspicion back on himself.

Theorizing that he may be on the trail of a serial rapist and murderer, Leo instead uncovers a massive judicial fraud leading to the federal courthouse. Leo will come face to face with an adversary more powerful than any foe he has met so far.

About Lachlan Smith

Lachlan Smith was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford and received an MFA from Cornell. He has written four previous books in the Leo Maxwell Mystery series: Bear Is Broken, which won the 2014 Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel, Lion Plays Rough, Fox Is Framed, and Panther's Prey. Smith's fiction has also appeared in the Best New American Voices series. In addition to writing novels, he is an attorney practicing in the area of civil rights and employment law. He lives in Alabama.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Greg on February 25, 2016

This book starts out with a psychological curiosity, namely the protagonist Leo Maxwell, Public Defender Lawyer is representing a man Randall Rodriguez who has a penchant for confessing to crimes he didn't commit. The obvious question is why would a person do that yet this novel has some interesting......more

Goodreads review by Kate on August 08, 2016

This is my first Leo Maxwell book. I liked it-just when I thought I had it figured out, everything changed and that happened like 5 times-so it keeps you guessing!......more

Goodreads review by Diane on September 03, 2018

I have followed this series of books by Lachlan Smith. This was probably not my favorite. While the saga continues of Leo, his brother, Teddy and his father, Lawrence, recently released from prison. Leo seems to have found is spot in life working for the public defender's office. He is defending a m......more

Goodreads review by Margaret on July 25, 2018

Here's #4 in the Leo Maxwell series, and it has the same snappy dialogue, court room intrigue and family drama as in books 1 through 3. Lachlan Smith is really hitting his stride!......more

Goodreads review by Beth on August 01, 2016

Although some authors can write a novel in a series to also work as a standalone so that the reader can enjoy it, even out of order, PANTHER'S PREY is not one of them. This is the fourth in a series about Leo Maxwell, a lawyer working as a public defender, and too much of this novel depends on your......more