One thing I enjoy about being a reader is discovering new authors. Mr. Johnson is a new author to me, a lawyer by profession, and took a relatively dull subject and turned it into a story. The whole premise is based on Erin Larson having to go through her late father’s safety deposit box after his unfortunate accident and finding a deposit slip from Ashley State Bank in a staggering amount. Curious to her as she had no idea her father had this much money … we are talking ten million plus. Of course, upon finding this deposit slip and taking it to the bank, they claimed to know nothing and that the slip was a fake. Enter Jared … he only happened upon this case because his mentor from Paisley, the law firm Jared started at where he met Clay who had also moved on from Paisley, referred it to him. Jared, having just come off a big case he lost, was quite hesitant … but there is the ever-present lure of money, yet it became more to him than that. Of course, his assistant, Jessie, was none too happy with him and almost threw her hands up and abandoned him altogether.
There are a lot of backstories contained within these pages. The relationship between Jared and his father that they were both forced to deal with. The relationship between Jessie and Jared (I suspect there will be more of these two in coming books). The lawyers at Paisley thinking Jared didn’t stand a chance and would give up … being that Jared had no money and they were a big law firm, Whittier and Stanford. Mrs. Huddleston. Joe Creedy. The Legion Hall and its members. All of these characters combined bring this story together, each of them playing their own roles to help Jared in this case. Definitely a different sort of read for me, but overall entertaining.
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