Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Mistress of Justice
    Mistress of Justice
    Mistress of Justice
    Audiobook9 hours

    Mistress of Justice

    Written by Jeffery Deaver

    Narrated by Tanya Eby

    3.5/5

    ()

    About this audiobook

    Taylor Lockwood spends her days working as a paralegal in one of New York's preeminent Wall Street law firms and her nights playing jazz piano anyplace she can. But the rhythm of her life is disrupted when attorney Mitchell Reece requests her help in locating a stolen document that could cost him not only the multimillion-dollar case he's defending but his career as well.

    Eager to get closer to this handsome, brilliant, and very private man, Taylor signs on . . . only to find that as she delves deeper and deeper into what goes on behind closed doors at Hubbard, White Willis, she uncovers more than she wants to know-including a plentitude of secrets damaging enough to smash careers and dangerous enough to push someone to commit murder. Yet who is capable of going to that extreme? With her life on the line, Taylor is about to learn the lethal answer . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJun 26, 2018
    ISBN9781541478602
    Mistress of Justice
    Author

    Jeffery Deaver

    Jeffery Deaver is the No.1 international bestselling author of more than forty novels, three collections of short stories, and a nonfiction law book. His books are sold in 150 countries and translated into twenty-five languages.

    More audiobooks from Jeffery Deaver

    Related to Mistress of Justice

    Related audiobooks

    Thrillers For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Karin Slaughter

      Jul 2, 2020

      This American crime author has sold more than 35 million copies of her books globally. This month she’s celebrating the release of her 20th novel in as many years. It’s also the 10th book in special agent Will Trent’s series. “It feels really great a

      1 min read

    • Article

      Why They Blow the Whistle

      Oct 2, 2019

      Why They Blow the Whistle
      6 min read

    • Article

      Cruel Means, Bitter Ends

      Nov 10, 2021

      “In order for this speech to mean anything to me, I’ll need to dispense with the usual demagoguery and, instead, make an attempt at honesty. With this in mind, there is one thing I have to make clear. I’m not in this race to serve your interests, but

      12 min read

    • Article

      Quotients

      May 7, 2020

      Quotients
      8 min read

    • Article

      'Star Spangled Scandal': How An 1859 Sensationalized Crime Set A Modern Day Precedent

      Jul 4, 2019

      Author Chris DeRose's examination of "sex, murder and the trial that changed America" shows that glorification of true crime and parstisan rancor is nothing new to American politics.

      4 min read

    • Article

      Murder mystery

      Jan 26, 2023

      Murder mystery
      4 min read

    • Article

      80 Who Killed Claude Kendall? The Mystery Murder Of Charles Fort’s Publisher

      Dec 3, 2020

      Millions of Americans celebrated Thanksgiving in the comfort of their homes on 25 November 1937, but for one man fate reserved a different outcome. That same night, in a room on the eighth floor of a New York hotel, Claude Kendall was brutally beaten

      7 min read

    • Article

      A Glaring Absence

      Feb 12, 2023

      Look out! She’s behind you! That old pantomime trope didn’t need to be spelled out on Waitangi Day this year. Titewhai Harawira may have gone to the great marae in the sky, but her eagle eye was still on you politicians. So behave. Waitangi Day witho

      4 min read

    • Article

      Into The Void

      Nov 6, 2023

      Hello. Are you still there? Of course you are. We’re all still here, stuck in this locked airless room with the stopped clock. By the time you read this, somebody might have unlocked the door and fixed the clock. We may have a government. Or we may n

      4 min read

    • Article

      Trump Tries to Be Normal

      May 2, 2020

      Trump Tries to Be Normal
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Emperors of Existence

      Dec 28, 2018

      The Emperors of Existence
      9 min read

    • Article

      Richard Babcock

      Nov 7, 2020

      Richard Babcock
      2 min read

    • Article

      Rent Arlington Hall’s Brain: The implant would make him a brilliant pianist for 24 hours.

      Jan 15, 2015

      Eight Hours To Go Thorne hesitated. The clinic’s storefront consisted of a glass elevator that went only down. Below the earth, into the unknown. A sign on its door read in elegant silver script: “Rent a Brain Today, Genius Guaranteed.” Thorne could

      14 min read

    • Article

      Breaking Good

      Aug 19, 2020

      Breaking Good
      12 min read

    • Article

      Breaking Good

      Aug 19, 2020

      Breaking Good
      12 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Jul 10, 2019

      Book Club
      5 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Mistress of Justice

    3.5/5

    79 ratings2 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      This book did not disappoint me in terms of what I have come to expect from Deaver's writing. According to the author's note at the beginning, he rewrote it extensively 13 years after it was first published. He says "In rereading the first version of this book, which I wrote thirteen years ago, I realized that, while it was a perfectly acceptable dramatic, character-driven study of life on Wall Street, it didn't make my--and presumably my readers'--palms sweat." Well, I don't know that my palms sweated but I did find it quite suspenseful. And I find that I am impressed that Deaver admits his writing needed improving and then went ahead to act on that. The story takes place in a large Wall Street law firm. Taylor Lockwood is a paralegal in the firm, planning on going to law school soon, but also following her love for playing jazz piano at night. One morning she is abruptly pulled off the case she is working on and told to report to Mitchell Reece. Reece has a case that he is going to lose because the promissory note on which the case is based has been stolen from his office. He wants Taylor to investigate and find the note before court reconvenes in less than a week. Reece thinks that someone in the law firm has stolen the note because there is a proposed merger which the senior partners are vehemently opposing. If Reece's case is lost the senior partners will have lost a valuable client and the merger is almost certain to proceed. Taylor finds the most likely suspects by accessing billing data, after hours access card use, taxi and limo vouchers and other records which incidentally allows the reader to understand the inner workings of a large law firm. One by one she eliminates the suspects until, on the night before the trial is to start, she believes she knows who has the note. Her cliffhangar entrance into the courtroom is straight out of Perry Mason (oops I guess that dates me). And the excitement is not over then. There are almost another 100 pages to go. I thought Taylor was a very interesting character but the others seemed fairly stereotypical. Although Deaver says in his notes "...the many hardworking lawyers who wished for nothing more than to help their clients and to make a living at their chosen profession", overwhelmly the lawyers are shown as money-grasping and unethical. A reader with a negative view of the legal profession is not going to be convinced to change that view by this book. Nevertheless, I would recommend this book to other readers for the strength of the story.
    • 3/5
      Mistress of Justice: A who-done-it within a legal firm. Well written, very involved with just too many miracles for my taste.