Shoot the Lawyer Twice

When a frat boy finds himself on trial in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for piracy on the high seas, Lawyer Rep Pennyworth suspects he's being used as an unwitting accomplice in a cheap publicity stunt. Meanwhile Rep's professor wife Melissa gets caught in the middle of a verbal firefight between two colleagues that soon escalates into burglary, theft, jury-tampering, forgery-and murder. Melissa wants to protect a naďve undergraduate who might be implicated. But when one of the other suspects makes Melissa a cast-iron alibi, her search for the truth leads through a maze of gray lies-including her own. What with an investigative reporter who's still having flashbacks to 1968, a fellow professor whose acute political correctness masks ruthless academic ambition, an engineer whose father's heart attack may have been either suicide or murder, and a brace of cunning lawyers out for blood, Rep and Melissa must combine their talents to stay off the casualty list.... Praise for Shoot the Lawyer Twice... "Bowen's powers of invention are so florid and his satirical touch so bright, most readers won't care who gets carted off to jail." -Kirkus Reviews Michael Bowen is a trial lawyer practicing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He wrote the entry on The American Legal System for the Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing and has served on panels to select winners of the Edgar Awards for Best Mystery and Best Critical or Biographical Work. Shoot the Lawyer Twice is the fourth book in his Rep and Melissa Pennyworth mystery series.