Again.- don’t think the story is told until you turn that last page.  What a ride!   I think I’m going to leave that last book I have unread alone. These got better an better and the best of the lot so far as been #6, Murder at Black Oaks.  This was good though. – 

The Darkest Place
by Phillip Margolin 
Read by Therésè Plummer 6h 6m
Rating:  A / legal thriller 
(Book 5 in Robin Lockwood Series)  

Oh the tangles! The widow of a brutally murdered man is suspected of killing him. Two gangster types come to her wanting money. But she has no money. She leaves town and lands in Robin’s hometown. Then she agrees to surrogate pregnancy because she hears of a couple who desperately want a child and she needs money and hiding.  A lawyer puts the two in contact, gets all papers signed, and a pregnancy ensues. On a dark and stormy night (yes) a nurse isn’t aware that the newly delivered child is not legally the child of the woman who delivered and brings the baby to her.  They bond. Oops – Big oops!

Again.- don’t think the story is told until you turn that last page.  What a ride!   I think I’m going to leave that last book I have unread. These got better and better and the best of the lot so far as been #6, Murder at Black Oaks. This was good though. – 

Robin Lockwood 
Jeff – Robin’s fiance
Loretta Washington – receptionist 
Vanessa Cole –  Dist Atty
Kevin Harkness – 
Roger – police investigator at scene 
Carrie Anders – police –  “
Shirley Lockwood –  Robin’s mother/ roommate in EF
Nicholas Marquet – Kelly’s husband 
Joel Lowman – 1st victim –  many enemies 
Marjorie Lowman   Wife of 1st victim 
Kelley Starrett – Joel’s partner and Mistress
Gangsters –  go to wife to get what’s owed 
Ruth Larson/ Marjorie Loman  – wife of Joel Lowman
Nancy Cleary –  nurse – exhausted 
Emily – adoptive mother 
Caleb – adoptive father 
Roy /Peter – baby – (yikes) 
Darrel Holloway – atty for adoptive parents 
John Kaiser – motel manager
Irving Gilford local cop
Forster police chief out of state
2 deputies 
Arlene Castro – paramedic 
Gary Pinsky – paramedic 
Stan – a lawyer in Elk Grove, wants Robin as council 
Dr Nadine Wolf –  witness for prosecution 
Judge Stonehouse 
Maxwell Lancaster –  Doc for Marjorie/Robin 
Gabrielle Suarez – Psych for Marjorie 
Mulberry – jury lead 
Ken Breeland – new investigator