Among the many changes implemented with this new update, are some that are not mentioned in the patch notes. I assure you I’m waiting for Alana Woods’ next novel.The Pokémon Company has released the Version 1.2.0 update for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. Regretfully, I can only give this one five stars. Fictional stories, like real life, don’t always end happily, do they? I’ll never tell you. Conviction or acquittal? Prison or freedom? You’ll have to read the book to find out. Alana Woods writes the novel with the expertise and skill of one who has actually been there and seen it. And the actual murder trial, which is central to the entire book, will keep you on the edge of your seat. The love story (yes, there’s also a love story here) within the plot is handled skillfully and tenderly. Alana Woods created the scene exactly as I recalled it from some of my investigative experiences with tyrannical lawyers. I caught myself almost squirming in discomfort. One situation in particular, wherein the task master Elisabeth gathers her troops in the office and begins to assign their work, actually had me wanting to get out of the room. From the professionally driven, all-business barrister Elisabeth Sharman, to the investigators who dutifully carry out her legal legwork, you’ll feel as though you know each of them personally. I say that from having worked for nearly two years as an investigator with the Colorado Public Defender’s Office. The interactions among the various characters in the law office (it is a legal thriller, after all) are very true to life. And you know the sparks are going to fly, in several different directions. She encounters her senior instructing solicitor, the dashingly handsome, egotistical Rob Murphy, and some other office staff members who are less than receptive to her presence. Russell is looking at some very serious prison time.Įnter Elisabeth Sharman, a beautiful, intelligent, rather pushy, aggressive, sometimes tactless barrister, the newcomer to the office by the way, who is assigned to defend the accused at trial. Or does he? The government’s case is overwhelmingly strong, replete with solid circumstantial, forensic, and eye-witness evidence. He apparently has amnesia, the result of a brutal beating suffered shortly after the victim’s death. It’s not a shallow, quick read – it’s a real novel.Ī young man named Russell, who claims to have no recollection of the crime for which he is to be tried, stands accused of murder. Woods’ experience as a Court reporter makes her tale as authentic, intriguing and interesting as any you’ll ever read. Set in Australia, it is so deep, so well written, so intelligently thought out and flows so smoothly that I felt like a participant and personal observer within the events, rather than a reader who was sitting comfortably in my office as the story unfolded. This is an exemplary novel by a master of the craft. It’s difficult to decide where to begin with Automaton. My only complaint, like Miss Woods other book I read, Imbroglio, was too may second tier characters who take up too much of the story. It kept my attention throughout, and even though I am an American, I could still understand the Aussie terms used in the book. Elizabeth believes in her client though and pushes through, sometimes at her own peril. You just know that the tension between him and Elizabeth is going to be electric!Įlizabeth digs into the case, going all out in defense of her client, and incurs the wrath of any number of people who want to see Russell convicted of murder. She’s not the most tactful tool in the box, and soon has the entire office looking at her in disdain. His lawyer, or as they say in Australia, his barrister, is a young cocky way too sure of herself woman by the name of Elizabeth. The story centers around Russell, charged with a murder he can’t remember. Well, Automation, by Alana Woods has that and a whole lot more! Set in and around the courtrooms of Australia, Miss Woods takes the reader on a journey from a brutal murder, a defendant who can’t remember a thing, (or can he?) to an end that you can’t wait to get to! I love it even more if I can’t figure it out by Chapter three.
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