# Shoot the Lawyer Twice

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- Book: [Shoot the Lawyer Twice](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-george-bowen/shoot-the-lawyer-twice) ([Shoot the Lawyer Twice.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-george-bowen/shoot-the-lawyer-twice.md))
- Authors: [Michael George Bowen](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-george-bowen)
- Publisher: sourcebooks
- ISBN: 978-15-9058-669-3
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2012-08-31
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

" 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 ReviewsWhen 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 naïve 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....