So I started off the New Year in 2021 with a book released in 2020 by a relatively new-to-me author. This feels right. True Intent is by the same author as Lethal Defense, Michael Stagg. They’re books #1 and 2 in the Nate Shepherd series. These are legal thrillers – my favorite sub-genre. Sad to say these are the only ones of the series available so far on Audible.
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True Intent
by Michael Sears
2020 /
read by George Newbern 9h 34m
rating: A / legal mystery
Book 1 of 7 in Nate Shepherd series
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Nate Shepherd is an attorney working out of a medium sized Ohio town not too far from the Michigan border. He gets involved in the case of a single professional woman who is charged with murdering a very rich, old and widowed man – a billionaire due to big forest operations. He has children who might want him dead but his date for the evening of his death might have had problems with his forestry interests.
The ending is very confusing, and I think that even if you read it carefully it’s still it’s open ended.
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I just finished ‘True Intent’ and don’t get the ending? Clearly he comes to a decision, but I don’t understand how?
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Just finished “True Intent”. I’m also confused by the ending. He found shipping paperwork for the Chinese shell company that had something to do with the ash trees. That changed his opinion of his client. But I’m not exactly sure what was done wrong. I don’t think it was the murder but I guess I could be wrong. Obviously Her getting in the truck with Jeremy at the end speaks volumes but i dont know how it ties in with Richard and the shipping company and dead ash trees. Anyone got this all figured out??? Fill me in please, so I can start the 3rd book.
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See – https://mybecky.blog/2023/08/15/true-intent-by-michael-stagg-x2/
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