The Colour of Law

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and found it immensely readable. The synopsis is well covered elsewhere so I won't repeat others' work. The caustion referred to is that you will almost certainly enjoy the book enough to want to read the other two in the series. Now £4.99 for an e-book is just about acceptable, the next book is £5.99 and the last one £6.99. All for e-books with minimal or no production, distribution, delivery or bricks 'n' mortar overheads. Books furthermore that one can, at best, share with only one other person - unlike print. So a total of £18 for three kindle books, I did buy the second and now refuse to buy the third at that ridiculous price. I'm OK with teaser pricing to get people into a new author and often expect subsequent books in the series to be a little pricier but I consider these to be excessive.I have now spent £11 in total. Had the books all been priced all at £4.99 I would have spent £15. The author and Amazon have both lost revenue due to their sheer greed. I can't believe I'm the only one put off by this grasping price structure.

A. Scott Fenney is a man who lives the perfect life; a rich, charismatic lawyer at the best law firm in Dallas, unbound by morality, with a trophy wife, a young daughter, a mansion in the posh part of town and a Ferrari. He has everything he wants. Until he is forced to represent a woman called Shawanda Jones, a heroine addicted prostitute accused of murdering the son of the state senator, and potentially the next president.Soon Scott’s life dives into a spiral of declining misery as the senator uses everything at his disposal - including his influence at Scott’s law firm to get Scott to throw the case - to ensure Shawanda is tried and convicted for the murder of his son.The only problem?A. Scott Fenney has grown a conscience, and he is determined to give her a fair trial and represent her to the best of his ability, even if he doesn’t believe in her claims of innocence himself.The characters were well written and interacted very well and in a believable way. You genuinely feel for A. Scott Fenney as his life is slowly ripped away from him. Scott’s character growth is intriguing too, as we see him slowly develop a conscience; questioning the lives around him as if it was his own life and the lives of his family. It is also interesting to see characters enter and leave the plot, and the effect they have on other characters.I really enjoyed the pacing of the book. I was never left getting a bit bored with one aspect of the story or another or left feeling that one part of a mystery went on for too long. It drives itself forward and you want to be along for the ride.Drawing inspiration from the classic To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Mark Gimenez manages to mix law and morality into one novel while keeping it a modern thriller in the same vein as Harlan Coben and Michael Cordy.The Colour of Law is an excellent book, and without a doubt is one of my favourite books of all time.

I bought this book a couple of months ago solely on seeing an advert in a train station (not something I normally do).Anyway, it was an enjoyable read and I ended up finishing it in a matter of a few days.It has a somewhat predictable storyline - rich son of a politician who has a tendency to beat and rape women meets his match in a poor, black, heroin addicted prostitute....ends up dead.....prostitute is charged with murder in the first.....faces a potential execution if convicted.....step in the good looking, rich corporate lawyer who up until this point never represented anyone for free...etc..etc.I've left loads of other important detail out but to cut it very short - Does the prostitute who hasn't had much of a life so far go down for the crime or does the lawyer save her from certain execution??A few nice characters plus a few not so nice ones thrown in for good measure.Overall, very entertaining and not a bad first book by this author.I'm looking forward to his next one.

Brilliant !!...this was my first novel written by Mark Gimenez and I now intend buying all his other novels...the story flows like a well-oiled machine and is a page-turner in every sense of the word. Move over John Grisham !One annoying FACT aimed at Amazon...the date given for the publishing of this novel is 2013 !!.....GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT AMAZON, THIS BOOK WAS PUBLISHED IN 2005 !!!!.......I have the book in front of me !!.......as I said "get your facts right!

Whoever thinks that this author is the next John Grisham, has never read Grisham. Just because the setting is the same in this novel as many of Grisham's novels doesn't mean that it is on the same level of expertise, character development, sense of humour and understanding of humanity and how people's minds work and why. Pure twaddle.

I bought this book for a friend as we were going on holiday and from the minute she picked it up, she had to keep reading. Wondering what was so gripping, I read it immediately afterwards and from start to finish it was so good I couldn't put it down. To start with, the hero appears selfish but throughout the book he has to deal with his own prejudices in order to give his client a fair trial. He does this at great personal cost. The plot moves briskly and you always want to know what will happen next. When I finished this book, my only sense of disappointment was that I would have to wait this author's next book to come out. Buy it and read it, it's worth every penny!

Very good read. Gripping storyline. Characters come to life and the reader is kept page turning as the plot takes many twists and turns. Next one please

According to the book's cover the author is another Grisham - well it is an interesting book but Gimenez is not quite another Grisham - at least not when Grisham was at his best. The story, like so many other books, highlights the colour problems in America (and other places for that matter) and this cannot be done too often. For me the ending was too much of a "and they all lived happily ever after"but it's worth reading.