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    Death on a High Floor
    Death on a High Floor
    Death on a High Floor
    Audiobook15 hours

    Death on a High Floor

    Written by Charles Rosenberg

    Narrated by Christopher Lane

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    When much-despised Marbury Marfan senior partner Simon Rafer turns up in a cold pool of blood with an ornate dagger in his back, it comes as a surprise to no one—least of all to Robert Tarza, who is first on the scene. A long-time partner at Marbury, Tarza knows dozens of attorneys in the firm who had good motive to want Rafer in the ground. But despite his own decades of conflict with Rafer—and a recent heated quarrel over a rare ancient coin Simon bought from him—Robert never imagined that homicide Detective Spritz would zero in on him as prime suspect.

    As Spritz’s case builds with uncanny speed, Robert quickly falls from his respected position at Marbury to a criminal being dragged through the tabloids. Along with his kick-butt defense attorney, Jenna James, he is forced to play detective in a race to find the real killer—and uncovers a web of fraud amongst his closest colleagues in the process. In the end, only Jenna’s untested trial skills can keep him out of prison.

    Revised edition: This edition of Death on a High Floor includes editorial revisions.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJan 28, 2014
    ISBN9781480558014
    Death on a High Floor
    Author

    Charles Rosenberg

    Charles Rosenberg is the author of the legal thriller Death on a High Floor and its sequels. The credited legal consultant to the TV shows LA Law, Boston Legal, The Practice, and The Paper Chase, he was also one of two on-air legal analysts for E! Television’s coverage of the O.J. Simpson criminal and civil trials. He teaches as an adjunct law professor at Loyola Law School and has also taught at UCLA, Pepperdine and Southwestern law schools. He practices law in the Los Angeles area.

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    • 4/5

      This story took a while for me to get invested into the plot.  Plus the main character, Robert Tarza, was an idiot at times.  Even I, who has nowhere near the knowledge of a defense attorney, wanted to smack him upside the head and shout, You're an idiot!  Stop it!"  However, I ended up getting wrapped in the plot as it was nearing the end and I loved the resolution.  It was wacky and off-base, but it was highly entertaining.  In the end, I'm so glad I read it.

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    • 4/5
      Superior legal thriller. Each of the characters has hidden motives. The author clearly knows whereof he speaks as hidden intrigues and conflict within the law firm begin to unfold.

      The story is told from the point of view of Robert Tarza, an established and respected (if a bit behind the others in billings) partner in a large law firm. He alsways arrives early in the office and one day discovers the body of another partner, Simon, who had just accused Robert of selling to him a fake two-thousand-year-old coin (Brutus Ides of March Denarius) worth hundreds of thousands, if genuine. The police claim to have evidence that Robert is the killer. Jenna, Robert’s protege, jumps in to provide legal counsel to Robert, but Jenna, we soon learn, had been having an affair with Simon.

      The other partners want Tarza to quietly go away, take a leave of absence, whatever. He refuses, so they ingeniously move him into an associate’s empty office several floors down. He arrived one morning to find his office completely empty and his secretary tearfully reporting “they” had determined he had a window loose in his office and it would be “dangerous” for him to stay. He has been moved to “eighty-two” otherwise known as First Year Ghetto. Hint, hint.

      Tarza’s house has a study that I can only describe as magnificent and something I wish I could emulate: “All my books are there--almost a thousand of them--on ceiling high shelves covering two adjoining walls. The other two walls are dark mahogany. The floor of the room is wide-plank dark wood, covered by an old oriental rug. . . In one of the corners the is a big chair, its red leather cracked from age and use, with a battered ottoman in front of it. Next to the chair, there is a small, marble-topped table, n which I leave my coin [train, airplane, political, history, sociology] magazines until I get around to reading them.” Add a couple of computers within reach and you have nirvana.

      I will also ignore the blatant commercial approval for In-N-Out burgers. Even the reference to the secret menu that I just had to verify on the web.

      Rosenberg has an interesting background. He was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and has been a partner in several law firms. He’s also been the script consultant to Boston Legal, L.A. Law, and The Practice.
    • 4/5
      Interesting, slightly quirky story of a corporate lawyer who finds himself being charged with the murder of another lawyer in his firm. Fun read, with enough mystery to keep me involved.
    • 4/5
      A surprisingly enjoyable legal thriller. It was very interesting reading a book like this one who made the main character someone who was older....a long-time member of their legal firm. Also, it was someone who was successful, but not the biggest star in their firm. I thought all of the characters were interesting and likeable, although it's a mystery to me how Jenna could have had so many secrets from people close to her in the firm. Some of her inside knowledge may have been a wee bit convenient. Still, it was a fresh new voice in this genre and I look forward to reading future novels from this author.