Betrayal: A Robin Lockwood Novel

· Robin Lockwood Book 7 · Macmillan Audio · Narrated by Thérèse Plummer
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In Phillip Margolin's Betrayal, attorney Robin Lockwood finds herself defending her old nemesis in a multiple-murder case with too many suspects, where success might cost her own life.

Robin Lockwood is now a prominent defense attorney in Portland, Oregon but a decade ago, she was a ranked and rising MMA fighter. Her career came to a quick end when she was knocked out and concussed in the first round by Mandy Kerrigan, a much more talented fighter.

Now the situation couldn't be more different, with Kerrigan on her last legs, her career nearly over, arrested for the quadruple murder of the entire Finch family...and Kerrigan's only possible friend is the attorney she beat so many years ago.

For Robin, it's no simple case: Margaret Finch was a lawyer working for vicious Russian mobsters, and was in the cross-hairs of both the mobsters and the widower of a woman a client killed; her husband Nathan Finch was deeply in debt to a bookie who threatened his life; her son Ryan was the one who sold Kerrigan illegal performance enhancing drugs and was beaten severely by her when Kerrigan failed her drug test. To complicate matters further, the DA that Robin is facing is the man she's just started dating, the first person she's begun seeing seriously after her husband was killed.

In a case where the stakes are high and the truth is elusive, where each new fact twists the case in a new direction, there is seemingly no way to win or direction to turn that will leave Robin Lockwood unscathed.

A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books.

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4.3
3 reviews
Darcia Helle
October 16, 2023
Writing this makes me sad. I used to love Phillip Margolin’s novels. He’s one of a handful of authors I read all the time in my younger days. I lost track of his books some time ago, and I was so excited to receive this one on audio. Unfortunately, the entire story fell flat for me. The case itself just didn’t feel plausible. Mandy, the MMA fighter, is arrested on flimsy evidence, while other evidence is flatly ignored. And, yes, that can and does happen at times, but it was a stretch here because everyone involved seemed to intentionally wear blinders to all other possibilities. Then we add in the Russian mafia spin, which felt like it had been tossed in to add danger, even though it wasn’t a good fit. The whole thing wound up feeling convoluted. Margolin usually excels at the trial aspects of his stories, but even that felt lackluster to me. When we got there, we already knew most of the evidence on both sides, so it was courtroom scenes with regurgitated facts and arguments. I wasn’t wowed by the revelation or the ending. The audio narration is good, but the overall experience was just okay. *Thanks to Macmillan Audio for the free download.*
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Terri Chlapek
November 15, 2023
I listened to the audio version of this book narrated by Therese Plummer. Ms. Plummer is one of my very favorite voice actors and she did an exceptional job on this (as always). This book kept me interested from beginning to end. It had a lot of characters, which I thought would be a problem for me (thank you, fibro fog), but it really wasn't an issue. The characters were recurring often enough that it helped me keep them straight. This was my first book by this author, but I am definitely open to reading more by him now. There was violence, murders and courtroom drama in this legal thriller. Highly recommend.
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PHILLIP MARGOLIN is the author of over twenty-five novels, many of them New York Times bestsellers, including Gone But Not Forgotten, Lost Lake, and The Third Victim. Before he was a full-time novelist, Margolin was also a prominent criminal defense attorney with decades of trial experience. Margolin lives in Portland, Oregon.

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