Review: With all due respect…..Jamie Quinn rocks!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 22, 2014
"With all due respect, Your Honor--" I interrupted, desperate to keep my client out of jail. I knew better than to argue with a judge, but still, I had to try."Counselor," Judge Marcus said, clearly annoyed. "Do you know what 'with all due respect' really means? It means you think I'm a crazy old man and I'm dead wrong. Now, I've made my ruling, Miss Quinn, this hearing is over."And so begins another Jamie Quinn mystery. Okay, I admit it, I'm a reluctant lawyer too. Well, that's not actually true. I'm only reluctant when I come up against other attorneys who are jerks and, unfortunately, there are a lot of them. If only I could practice against attorneys like Jamie Quinn. Author Barbara V., who until her first Jamie Quinn novel was honing her writing skills on entertaining and funny essays about those moments in life that are too funny to be true, has created an in-depth, likable character thrust into interesting situations. How many times have I heard an attorney say to a judge "with all due respect", hoping the judge would say something snarky like Judge Marcus in the opening dialogue of The Case of the Killer Divorce? Fiction meets real life, only in this novel the fiction is even better!Once again, I am highly recommending a Barbara V book. While this one has more romance in it than the first Jamie Quinn novel, I don't take that as a negative. Ms. V is building a series and over time, I am sure, we will see many sides to Jamie Quinn, watch her overcome many hurdles, and see her fall in and out of love numerous times. With all due respect, I am a Jamie Quinn fan and anxiously await her continued adventures.