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Beyond Reasonable Doubt by Robert Dugoni Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld
Series: Keera Duggan #2
Published by Brilliance Audio, Thomas & Mercer on October 22, 2024
Genres: Mystery
Pages: 365
Length: 11 hours, 18 minutes
Format: Audiobook, eARC
Source: NetGalley
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When Jenna Bernstein, disgraced wunderkind CEO of a controversial biotech company, is accused of murdering her former partner and lover, she turns to Seattle attorney Keera Duggan to defend her. Keera is more than a master chess player who brings her intuitive moves into court—she’s Jenna’s childhood friend. But considering their history, Keera knows that where Jenna goes, trouble follows.
Three years earlier, Keera’s father successfully defended Jenna when she was tried for the killing of her company’s chief medical scientist who threatened to go public with allegations of corporate fraud. Keera knows Jenna too well. When she was a kid, Keera saw Jenna for what she a manipulative and frighteningly controlling sociopath. Now, with only circumstantial evidence against Jenna, Keera is willing to bury any trepidation she might have to defend a woman she believes, this time, to be innocent.
I have loved everything I have read from Robert Dugoni. The series I’ve read are all mysteries of some sort: a police procedural, a spy thriller and now a legal thriller. Beyond Reasonable Doubt is the next in the Keera Duggan series. The setting is Seattle, as some of his other series and we have seen a few characters in the police or CSI I recognized.
Kerra is in her family’s firm after leaving the prosecutor’s office. The firm needs her as her father, a star criminal defense attorney, is aging and has issues with alcohol. Now a childhood enemy of Keera is up on her second murder charge. Her father got the charges dismissed on her first charge.
Keera has to think hard about whether she will defend this women who bullied and mistreated her in the past. Jenna is a master manipulator who is used to lying and getting her way. With her father in rehab, Keera will be on her own. Keera gathers all the evidence which brings her to the truth. Jenna will have to tell the truth to not spend the rest of her life in prison.
Keera is stellar and I love her. The details in the strategy and her cool handling of the case as she does her best even if she doesn’t like her client. Although I enjoyed it when she told Jenna to shut up and listen. I can be petty that way. Keera works well with the prosecution and the detectives. It is just a joy to have these stories.
Narration:
I have listened to this narrator previously. She has a large body of work. I enjoyed her performance, feeling the male and female voices were comfortable. She also handled a bit of an accent. I was able to listen at my usual 1.5x speed.
Listen to a clip: HERE
About Robert Dugoni
Robert Dugoni is the New York Times, #1 Amazon, and #1 Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of the Tracy Crosswhite series: My Sister’s Grave, Her Last Breath, In the Clearing, The Trapped Girl and Close to Home, as well as the short prequels The Academy and Third Watch. The police procedural featuring Seattle Homicide Detective Tracy Crosswhite has kept Dugoni in the Amazon top 10 for more than three years and sold more than 4 million copies. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell, released April 2018. Dugoni’s first series featured attorney David Sloane and CIA agent Charles Jenkins.
He is the winner of the Nancy Pearl Award for fiction, a two-time nominee for the Harper Lee Award for Legal Fiction, A two-time nominee for the Mystery Writer’s of America Edgar Award and a two-time nominee for the International Thriller of the year. His non-fiction expose, The Cyanide Canary, was a 2004 Best Book of the Year. He is published in more than 30 countries and two dozen languages.
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I love the sound of this. Legal thrillers are something I rarely read, but I have enjoyed the ones I’ve read.
I hadn’t read many until recently I picked some up for a Thrifty Thursday theme. But this author is my a top favorite. He writes police procedurals, spy thriller, and now a legal thriller series.
I knew you would love this! Great review, Anne💜
Thank you Jonetta. I do love this series and really everything Robert Dugoni.
Oh you made me want to try this series now!
It’s really good and only 2 books so far.
I still need to finish the first book. I started it and then I think I had to finish another book for review and got distracted. Thanks for the reminder!
yes these are really good I think.
I wish I enjoyed thrillers, your reviews always sound so good!
Thanks. This is more courtroom drama / legal strategy if that helps.
I like Dugoni’s Tracy Crosswhite books, but haven’t read any in this series yet. But I want to. Keera sounds like a great character.
Keera is awesome. I’m really enjoying the series.
I like the sounds of this…especially the heroine! She does sound stellar.
She’s really smart but also very human. There are feelings.
I like the sound of this!
I am a big fan of Dugoni and this series is one of the reasons.