Featured books

Featured Websites

.: Reader Views Kids

Provides book reviews, by kids, for kids

.: Inside Scoop Live

Provides live author interviews for podcast

.: Authors Access

Provides interviews with experts in the publishing industry

.: Midwest Book Review

Provides post-publication reviews

.: Reader Views

Provides book reviews and author publicity

.: LR Communication Design

Provides professional website design and development

.: Blogging Authors

Provides a place where writers and readers meet

.: Review The Book

Provides 5 books reviews on 10 different sites

.: Best Sellers World

Provides book reviews and author features

.: Say What? Savannah Mae

Provides Book Reviews via Book Blog

.: Feathered Quill Book Reviews

Provides book reviews and author features

reviews

Fatal Dilemmas

John Dicke
CreateSpace (2010)
ISBN 9781452820156
Reviewed by Narayan for RebeccasReads.com (01/11)

It's easy to categorize our popular legal thriller novelists. If you want fast paced action and crusading attorneys, look for John Grisham; if verisimilitude is your cup of tea look no further that Scott Turow. And if law and power in high places is your inclination, Richard North Patterson is the answer for you. And if you like lawyers to be feisty and gorgeous looking; look no further than Lisa Scottoline. That said all these lawyer novelists are commanding the legal thriller scenario in the last ten odd years. A rising star in this realm is John Dicke.

And the greatest facet about the Dike legal novels are that; save for the series protagonist no two books read alike. They are totally different, yet legally thought provoking. As an aficionado of legal fiction I can only place Dicke somewhere in between Scott Turow and Richard North Patterson. Dicke is in a class of his own.

This time round Jack Maine’s help is sought by psychologist Lucas Chrtisopher; who is the prime accused in a case involving the murder of his former wife. His present girlfriend Hallie Jordan introduces Christopeher to Jack Maine. And soon Maine is involved in the thick of action…of greed, sex, lies, double crosses and perversions. How Maine defends his client to the fullest forms the background of the story. The final, taut courtroom drama is mildly put awesome, and I was hooked to the pages.

I enjoyed this book very  much, and only two questions remains to be asked:

  1. when is the movie version of Fatal Dilemmas goanna be released?
  2. when in the next Jack Maine work going to be published?

.: Blog
.: FTC Disclosure