I’m not a big fan of James Patterson,  but when he co-authors a book with Maxine Paetro I turn into one. So I stay caught up on the Women’s Mystery Club series. until there’s nothing new for me there and I don’t care for James Patterson in other books. – with different co-authors or by himself. They tend to be too gritty for me and then the four main women characters  get love and families going. I’ll keep reading them until every characters is a grandparent – lol! 

The #1 Lawyer
James Patterson and Nancy Allen 
Read by Kevin Stillwell 13 h
Rating: B / legal thriller –  

I should have enjoyed this more than I did.  I love legal thrillers (or courtroom dramas) but either this just didn’t quite get there or I’m ready to move on? – No

I understand that Patterson writes the first one or two novels of a series and then finds someone he can work with to flesh them out.  He has so many ideas that I believe  his job is to write the outlines with some fill-in and then his co-author will finish it off.  I love Maxine Paetro but she’s the only one I can really enjoy and she and Patterson have been working like this for something like 5 years? –  I think so.  

In this book, Stafford Lee Penney, a criminal defense attorney from Biloxi Mississippi who hasn’t lost a case since law school, is defending a rich angry man who is charged with murder, but it doesn’t look good on him and Stafford Lee may lose this time.  Then he defends a woman who is still in law school herself and that snowballs to his own wife being murdered and Stafford Lee being arrested.