num_pages: 504
description: Jenna James's life has been smooth-sailing since she left the high-powered law firm of Marbury Marfan. She's happily ensconced as a professor at a prestigious law school where she's well liked by her students coupled-up with a handsome colleague and on track for tenure. But things take a shocking turn one morning when a student Primo comes to Jenna's office seeking her advice about a treasure map he recently inherited. When Primo turns up dead and Jenna is suddenly the prime suspect in a murder investigation everyone turns on her. Desperate for help she calls on two old friends: Robert Tarza her old law partner from Marbury Marfan and Oscar Quesana an odd-duck solo practitioner. The three race to save Jenna's career  and perhaps her life  in this whip-smart thriller of treasure maps murder and law school politics.
language: English
title: Long Knives
publisher: Thomas & Mercer