Worth The Wait! | Judgment Day (Mike Daley Mystery)

Fantastic! | Judgment Day (Mike Daley Mystery) | Sheldon Siegel

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	• Judgment Day (Mike Daley Mystery) Sheldon Siegel Macadam Cage Pub, 2008 - 360 pages average customer review:based on 9 reviews view larger image
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I believe this is the third book by the author. I found it more convincing in its story than the first two. The theme is the death penalty and the race of the same team of lawyers (ex-husband & wife but still partners in law) to save an innocent man from execution. From the literary point of view, the writing is smoother and more solid. I feel that the author is gaining in literary expression and hope he will continue with more works.

Worth The Wait!

A book by Sheldon Siegel featuring Michael Daley and Rosie Fernandez is worth the wait. The plot has been covered in other reviews so I will just say I've read all of Mr. Siegel's books and would rate each with 5 stars. I'm sure I will re-read them all one day.

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Fantastic!

This is the 6th book featuring Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez - law partners, divorced parents of two and lovers. With 8 days to go before the execution of noted defense attorney Nate Fineman, Mike and Rosie are hired to help stop the execution. And when Nate's "regular" lawyer drops dead of a heart attack, it is now up to them to get their client saved on their own. All of the regulars are back - including Mike's brother, PI Pete. This time though the case is more personal. Not only is their family threatened, but when they try to prove Nate was set up by a dirty cop, their father's reputation may be destroyed as he was one of the first on the scene. A virtual race to the wire proves another fantastic book in this series. Mike's fly by the seat of his pants courtroom questioning keeps you on the edge of your seat until the very end. . Will they be able to find the proof of a conspiracy they need in order to save their client? And at what cost to their family?? I love to see how these characters grow (both age wise and character wise) throughout the series. Mike and Rosie, although not the most prestigious lawyers in town, hold their own and continue to fight for the underdog - finding justice their own way.

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Sheldon Siegel writes a rapid-fire legal thriller

Sheldon Siegel's new Mike Daley mystery opens in a San Quentin death row cellblock, where Nate Fineman is 8 days, 12 hours and 58 minutes away from execution. Confined to a wheelchair, the result of a broken back in a fall 10 years before, and with his kidneys failing, he calls upon Daley to act as co-counsel for a last-minute stay of execution. Daley and his partner, ex-wife Rosie Fernandez, take on the case, lured by a $50,000 retainer. To make matters worse, their co-counsel dies of a heart attack during their first day on the job.

An ex-defense lawyer, Fineman has burnt bridges beyond repair. His colorful legal career included working against the police in a bold Posse prosecution defending dubious underground characters, and his history of collision with the cops has earned him their disdain. Negotiating a truce between two drug dealers, Fineman had met with them at a San Francisco Chinatown restaurant, the Golden Dragon. A man rushed into the room and began shooting. Fineman jumped out of a window and ran down a fire escape but slipped. When he regained consciousness, his fingerprints were on the gun that had killed three people.

Now, Daley's sole recourse in the courts is to prove "freestanding innocence." His brother, Pete, works on the tough case as well. A former cop who's now a private investigator, he's dubious about success on the legal venture but relentlessly chases down possible witnesses to the crime.

Eugene Tsai walked through the alley behind the restaurant that fateful night, accompanied by a fellow student, Jasmine Luk. Tsai had told the police that he had seen a black man running from the scene but could not identify him. Two days later, Tsai was stabbed to death in a robbery. The police never found out who killed him. Luk had disappeared, with nobody in Chinatown willing to talk about the Golden Dragon killings.

Daley visits with the original defense attorney who now resides in a Jewish Home residence for the aged. Mort "the Sport" Goldberg describes his research for Fineman's case, the only capital case he ever lost. His story jives with the official police version, recapped by Roosevelt Johnson, the detective who had worked the case along with Daley's father. In the original case, Goldberg had indicated that the murder weapon was planted in Fineman's hand, the fact covered up by cops seeing revenge for his Posse case victory.

The closer the clock ticks to the time of execution, the more desperate Daley's search for answers becomes. He soon is convinced that Fineman was set up for the killings, but the task of proving the theory looms monumental. Meanwhile, Daley's daughter receives a threatening note, Tsai's brother's apartment is ransacked and an Internal Affairs file at police headquarters that supposedly cleared all personnel at the crime scene of the wrongdoing is missing. The suspense tightens when Daley discovers that the person to check out the IA file was his own father, first on the scene with his partner.

Daley's chief suspect is Marshawn Bryant, a black contractor who may have been the gunman identified by the Chinese couple. Bryant had worked with one of the victims and could have benefitted from his partner's death. He had dealings with Alex Aronis, the garbage king of East Bay. They both stood to gain from the deaths of two drug kingpins, moving into the territory as new moguls. But Daley's major witness is Aronis's disgruntled ex-wife, who can offer little damage but character assassination of her ex.

Pete's diligence in locating witnesses finally pays off, but at grave personal expense. With less than two days to work, two potential bombshell witnesses are found, and the Daleys have their chance in court to prove their case. Nothing is certain as Fineman has ordered the menu for his last meal.

Sheldon Siegel writes a rapid-fire desperation-filled legal thriller. His characters are researched with a fine-tuned pen --- believable, empathetic, comically named, lovable to a degree. The personal conflict about Daley's deceased father is written as a gnawing undercurrent to the plot that eventually rises to the surface, and repetition is minimal to move the story toward the conflict resolution. Recommendations are sure to be positive for Siegel's newest case.

--- Reviewed by Judy Gigstad

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One of his best!

I'm a big fan of Sheldon Siegel's Mike Daley books. This one doesn't disappoint. Siegel keeps you wondering to the very end if Daley's client is guilty or not guilty. Great story and a quick read. Can't wait for his next book!

New York Times best-selling author Sheldon Siegel returns with a dramatic new case for the San Francisco law firm of Daley and Fernandez. As husband and wife, Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez couldn t make it work. Luckily for Bay Area criminals, they didn t let that stop them from joining forces to open San Francisco s most tenacious law firm. As defense attorneys willing to take on the biggest and trickiest cases, Daley and Fernandez make one hell of team. 'Judgment Day' finds the ex-spouses tackling their most compelling case yet. Called in at the last minute to try to stop the execution of Nathan Fineman, a former mob lawyer convicted of murdering three people in the backroom of the notorious Golden Dragon Restaurant, Mike and Rosie must race the clock in a desperate attempt to prove their client s innocence - an impossible task, given the wealth of forensic evidence pointing to his guilt. At the same time, Mike must battle his own personal demons when the reputation of his father - a San Francisco cop who was one of the first officers at the Golden Dragon on the night of the murders - is called into question. As the plot hurtles toward its stunning denouement, 'Judgment Day' is fast approaching not only for Nate Fineman, but for Mike s father and for the law firm of Daley and Fernandez as well.

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