COLD TRUTH
By Joel Goldman
ISBN-0-7860-1449-0
A 2013 release from
Character Flaw Press
Kansas City
attorney Lou Mason again goes where dark trouble stalks.
Lou Mason is a nosy criminal attorney with his solo practice
in Kansas City.
He doesn’t particularly like many of the cases that sidle through his front
door, but he takes them anyway. In this, author Joel Goldman’s third crime
novel, he takes a case to defend a mentally unstable young woman who, to say
the least, has serious anger issues.
Did she murder her shrink by tossing her through an eighth-floor
window of plate glass? Or is she protecting someone? If so who? As Mason
quickly learns there are several choices. What’s more, it soon appears he may
be the target of one or more killers himself. Is the plot against him part of
the first case? Or is it something quite apart? Mason doesn’t know and neither
do readers until well into the story.
This is a gutsy, strong story with wide appeal. The author,
who can really write, knows his stuff and he knows how to construct a
fast-paced, very enjoyable story populated with interesting and real
characters. Not subtly nuanced, COLD TRUTH starts out with an eighth-story bang
and careens along with nary a let-up until the very end. In the noir tradition,
a finely crafted, enthralling mystery.
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