Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This is my first Robert Bailey legal thriller. I’m more than halfway through and am enjoying it. Jason Rich is one of those personal injury (PI) attorneys plastering the highways with billboards advertising his services: 1-800-GET RICH. Tacky maybe, but very effective at bringing in clients. Jason is rich and famous, but not at all respected. After all, he settles all his cases and has never spent a day trying a case in court. When his estranged and troubled sister, Jana, is accused of murdering her husband and the case against her seems “open and shut,” will he take on her defense? He has every reason not to, including everyone’s advice against it, his lack of experience in criminal matters, his own personal demons, and plain old common sense. No reasonable, competent attorney with zero experience in court and/or with the criminal law would ever take on a capital murder case. Then again, family is family and his sister and nieces have no one else. For me, “Rich Blood” did not start off well. The first three chapters are devoted mostly to backstory about some not very nice people involved in some very questionable situations. And the prose initially seems wordy and clunky. But I kept going and found that the prose improves and becomes more sure-footed and that the characters grow and acquire depth. The internal and external conflicts become more interesting and the stakes higher, even urgent, as the story progresses. And Mr. Bailey does a good job with the Alabama setting. I learned things about the state I did not know. All in all, despite something of a rocky start, this is a good entertainment that fans of authors like John Grisham and Scott Turow may very well enjoy.