V.S. Kemanis

This is quickly becoming one of my favorite legal thriller series! Assistant DA Dana Hargrove is a super star in the courtroom, but she’s made some good friends and some enemies over the years. I loved the way that office politics came into play in a really interesting way in this one in the form of another person in the legal office with a family member in legal trouble themselves. These books are wonderfully detailed, full of multiple interesting court cases, plus personal family drama—all the makings of a wonderful book. Each book has district attorneys juggling multiple court cases, which makes for a fascinating read. I liked all of them. My favorite had to be the one involving Ellen—and the way the final showdown between her and Dana played out in the courtroom. Such juicy stuff!

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This is the third book I’ve read in the Dana Hargrove legal thriller series and each one is well written. In HOMICIDE CHART, assistant DA Dana Hargrove is newly married and has a young child at home. She’s also busy in the courtroom, prosecuting a gang member whose case quickly grows more complicated due to the actions of someone else tied to the case. She also has to work the homicide chart, where she’s called out in the middle of the night to go to crime scenes. The author did a great job of showing how stressful juggling all these responsibilities would be—especially with a young baby at home. There’s another plot involving the au pair who cares for her infant son Travis that winds up getting Dana’s family twisted up in it, plus an interesting complication in the first trial. I also found the subplot involving the author quite funny. Great characters, wonderfully detailed and an excellent read. Recommended for lovers of legal thrillers!

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I loved this legal thriller so, so much!!! Dana Hargrove is the newly elected district attorney in a country in upstate New York. She has two children with her husband, who is an attorney. A teen jumps to their death off an icy bridge over the Hudson River in the early morning hours—a teen from the school Dana’s children attend—and it quickly comes out that she was the victim of bullying. This novel had a wonderful ensemble cast and was told from multiple POVs. I enjoyed the family scenes as well as the courtroom scenes. This was the fourth book in the series, but the first one I happened to pick up, and I had no problems jumping in and reading it as a standalone. I will definitely be reading other books in the series!

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In THURSDAY’S LIST, assistant DA Dana Hargrove has just started work as a prosecutor when a complex case comes across her desk involving money laundering by Colombian cartels. This is the second book I’ve read in this series (I’m reading them a bit out of order and was happy to see they’re now available on Kindle Unlimited!) and just like the first, I found the legal details and descriptions of personal stress on the job to be top notch. There was a fair amount of backstory presented on the side characters and the setting was well described. Lots of interesting interpersonal conflict as it’s revealed that Dana may have a personal connection with some of the people she’s investigating… and doesn’t know whether they are guilty or not. That was one of my favorite aspects of the book. I enjoyed learning the ins and outs of life as a rookie DA, from Dana’s start doing hearings in a night court, to her transfer to the financial crimes division.

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