Primary Justice

A lawyer investigates the murder of an aspiring adoptive father: A climax that will take most readers by surprise (Chicago Tribune). Its Ben Kincaids first day as an associate at corporate giant Raven Tucker & Tubb and hes ready to start the long climb up the ladder to partnership. But hes barely cleared the first rung when a body trips him up.Bens first task is to arrange an adoption for one of the firms biggest clientsa bit of grunt work that becomes interesting when he meets the child in question. Emily suffers from Korsakovs Syndrome a rare disorder that prevents her from forming memories and Jonathan and Bertha Adams want nothing more than to raise her as their own. But Kincaid has just begun getting the paperwork together when he gets a chilling phone call: Jonathan has been found dead hacked to pieces in an alleyway. Investigating the killing will take Kincaid down a fearsome path leading him to wish that like Emily he had the power to forget.