Presumed Guilty

Southern California Legal Thrillers Book One

A wealthy family with DARK secrets.

A SHOCKING reveal that you guaranteed won't see coming...

Avery Collins is an attorney with the tender heart of a warrior for the wrongfully accused, for one simple reason. She was once wrongfully accused, and spent 7 years in prison for a murder she didn't commit.

Now sworn to protect the indigent accused, she's persuaded to represent Esme Guitierrez, an El Salvadoran refugee who is accused of killing 21-year-old Aria Whitmore. Aria was the daughter of the prominent billionaire hotelier Jacob Whitmore, and was also an aspiring concert pianist and music composer.

As Avery digs further into the case, she realizes that there were some sick games taking place behind the closed doors of the Whitmore mansion, and Avery ends up with more questions than answers.

What happened to Aria's birth mother?

How did Julian Rodriguez, a young schizophrenic man, come to befriend Aria?

And who is sending threatening emails that are filled with facts that are not widely known to the public?

When Avery finds out the answers to these questions, she's shocked. But she also realizes that the big reveal opens up more questions than answers, and the case takes an unexpected turn.

As time runs out to find the true culprit, Avery faces the trial of her life. Amidst an intense media glare, death threats, protestors and stalkers breaking into her home, Avery nonetheless gives this case her all.

Because if she doesn't, her client will end up on death row.

With the lightning speed, twists and turns you've come to expect from a Rachel Sinclair novel, Presumption of Guilt is a legal thriller that is not to be missed! Come and meet your newest favorite badass attorney, Avery Collins, today!

Great story. Terribly written and read.

The story line is great, but the writing style and narration has got to be AI. And not even good AI. But I suffered through it because I wanted to know how the story turned out.

I prefer narrators who try to use different voices for different characters

The virtual voice was clear and I only noticed a few errors like straight as instead of straight As. But there was no effort at a Latin American accent, no real way to tell which character was speaking other than from the text and no effort to express emotions, for instance when the author tells the reader a character yelled something. The story was OK, but I found it difficult to finish the book.

Too graphic!

I could not even make it through the third chapter of this book because it started getting so graphic, it made my stomach turn. Going into detail about human decapitation, and other horrors was just too much for me. The narration was bland, but that’s to be expectedwhen there’s not a real human or actor telling the story. I did speed it up to 1.25x speed which helped. Do not recommend this book for people who are sensitive to the human condition.

Plot

Don’t like AI narrative it would be better with a real person narratiing the story

Twisted

I was intrigued with the storyline. It was twisted and interesting. I hated the virtual voice. I couldn't wait to know the truth and I couldn't wait for it to end because of the voice.