Local Rules

by Jay Brandon

Book Overview

When citified attorney Jordan Marshall is ticketed for speeding and hauled before the bench of Judge Waverly of Green Hills, Texas, he is sentenced to serve as court-appointed defender for Wayne... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671884085
• ISBN13: 9780671884086
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

More true-to-life than most

The story is laid out above (Editorial Reviews). So I'll just add that I liked it. It was pleasantly different than most legal mysteries in that it was about regular people in a rural town, not your wealth blahblahblah clients who can and do buy and manipulate everything and everyone in sight.This is the third book by Jay Brandon I've read and enjoyed. The only blooper I found was that the lawyer went looking to see if the defendant was wearing a ring. Everything is taken from you when you are processed into jail.

Classic

Wicked. Cool. Sorted. Jay Brandon is da man. Aiiight! Boo ya!

Classic

Jay Brandon is the man... and I've only read one of his books. Cool cat - good courtroom stuff. Excellent. Wicked. Aiiie! Boo yah!

Classic courtroom drama told just at the right pace

Unlike the works of John Grisham, this classic coutroom drama is told at a bit slower pace, leaving enough time to watch the story unfold and enjoy the characters, yet it never gets boring and pages are turned just as quickly, maybe even faster.I specifically enjoyed the fact that the mystery unfolds around one single case only, and is solved within the confines of the original setting (a small village and its courtroom) without resolving to surprising outside developments which in other courtroom dramas sometimes come from left field. This allows the reader to keep guessing at the solution without "changing the rules" halfway through the book. Brandon needs no subplots and doesn't have to jump between multiple storylines to spice up his book, the suspense comes from the classic "whodunit" question, which in this case is overshaded by the questions of "whydunit" and the mystery of the strange behavior of the entire village. I would! certainly recommend this book, however, for readers that look for more action-packed drama, there may not be enough "meat" in this novel.