{"product_id":"the-crooked-angel-a-burr-lafayette-mystery","title":"The Crooked Angel: A Burr Lafayette Mystery","description":"Brian Dunn killed his wife with a deer rifle in the basement of their home. The police thought it was an accident. But was it?\nBrian remarried, moved from Petoskey, Michigan downstate to Grosse Pointe and started a new family. Six years later, an ambitious prosecutor finds new evidence and hunts Brian down.\nThe police burst into Brian's house while he's decorating the Christmas tree with his new wife and their five-year-old daughter. They haul him away and charge him with first-degree murder.\nBurr Lafayette, the deposed head of a major Detroit law firm, is recruited by his beautiful ex-girlfriend to defend Brian. A man at loose ends, Burr prefers dogs, boats, women and wine to clients and courtrooms. But he's a brilliant litigator.\nHe discovers there are more secrets than Brian ever let on. Just as he's about to solve the murder, Burr's own life is threatened.\nA legal thriller with larger-than-life characters and a town too small for its secrets, The Crooked Angel is Steve Hamilton's A Cold Day in Paradise and Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent rolled into one.\n• • •\nCritics call Cutter’s books “pure Michigan.” \"Cutter’s narrative maintains a relentless edge while an unsettling ambiguity hangs over everything. Another superb installment in this legal thriller series.\"\n—Kirkus Reviews\nThe Crooked Angel is the fourth book in the award-winning Burr Lafayette mystery series.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 195478628X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.195478628X.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Cutter, Charles\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43915586338877,"sku":"BVV.195478628X.A","price":12.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/195478628X-0.jpg?v=1793311253","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/the-crooked-angel-a-burr-lafayette-mystery","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}