SummaryYou can pick your friends, they say, but you can't pick
your family. And lately, Mike Daley's family has been
keeping him very busy. An ex-priest, ex-public defender,
and ex-corporate lawyer, Daley and his former wife, Rosie
Fernandez, now run their own San Francisco criminal defense
firm. Most of their cases are fairly small-time, which is
why it would be surprising that the person accused of
murdering movie director Richard (Big Dick) MacArthur is
calling them-except that the accused is Rosie's own niece,
Angelina. That case is bad enough, but the family problems
don't end there: Rosie's brother, Tony, may be on the wrong
end of a strong-arm graft proposal; the son of one of the
firm's lawyers has just been busted on a drug charge; Mike
is having a clandestine affair with a woman judge . . . and
Rosie herself has a dark secret that may make all of it
seem irrelevant. An intricate plot, immensely likeable characters, powerful
suspense, and more than a touch of humor-these have already
become Siegel's hallmarks. Criminal Intent will keep you
turning pages until its final, surprising end.
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