Phillip Margolin
Author of Gone, But not Forgotten
About the Author
Philip Margolin was born in New York City in 1944. He received a bachelor's degree in government from The American University in 1965. From 1965 to 1967, he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia. He graduated from New York University School of Law in 1970. From 1972 until 1996, he was in private show more practice in Portland, Oregon, specializing in criminal defense. He has tried many high profile cases and has argued in the Supreme Court. He was the first attorney to use the battered woman's syndrome defense in a homicide case in Oregon. His first novel, Heartstone, was published in 1978. He has been a full-time author since 1996. His other works include The Last Innocent Man; Gone, But Not Forgotten; After Dark; The Burning Man; The Undertaker's Widow; Wild Justice; The Associate; Sleeping Beauty; Capitol Murder and Sleight of Hand. He also writes short stories and non-fiction articles in magazines and law journals. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Reader's Digest Condensed Books 1997 v02: The Third Twin / Small Town Girl / To the Hilt / The Burning Man (1997) — Author — 69 copies
Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted (2017) — Contributor — 59 copies, 1 review
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- Phillip Margolin (born 1944) is an American writer of legal thrillers.
Margolin was born in New York City in 1944. After receiving a B.A. in Government in 1965, from American University in Washington, D.C., he worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia until 1967. He graduated from the New York University School of Law in 1970, and has worked for 25 years as a criminal defense attorney, an occupation of choice inspired by the Perry Mason books. He started to work in 1970 at the Oregon Court of Appeals.
He published his first story, a short story titled "The Girl in the Yellow Bikini", in 1974, and became a full-time writer in 1996. He has written 12 books as of January 2007. He lists as his favourite writer Joseph Conrad, and among his favourite books War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy and Stone City by Mitchell Smith.
Philip Margolin was married to Doreen Stamm in 1968. They had two children, Ami and Daniel. Doreen, also an attorney, died from cancer in January 2007.
Phillip Margolin is also the president of Chess for Success, a non-profit organisation "dedicated to helping children develop skills necessary for success in school and life by learning chess". - Nationality
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From a Master of courtroom thriller we have another great legal drama hard to put down. Since discovering this author in 2011 and have been huge fan and his stories have never disappointed me. This latest is a standalone drama.
A little too long intro:
We are introduced to a new attorney, a third rate one who graduated from a third rate law school that couldn’t get a position at any major law firm so he opened his own law firm. Charles Webb takes on cases from dubious friends from his past show more and court appointed cases. Guido Sabatini, a talented artist and a nut job was his latest appointee to defend. Guido had sold one of his paintings to a restaurant owner and has liberated it along with a flash drive from the safe...At the time the restaurant owner and her partner were under investigation for sex trafficking of minors....With bargaining power knowing that the content of the flash drive threatens very powerful figures, Guido played all his cards but toying with criminals that wanted at any cost to retrieve the flash drive ...even going as far as murder may not be a good strategy.
It didn’t take long for the insignificant Charles to be plunged into more than a simple case defending Guido but into a sensational double murder....
My very long thoughts:
I simply love this story there is so much going on and so many twists and turns to face that I didn’t want to put the book down. I was so captivated by the coming and going and the many characters that crossed the pages many of them had important roles in both Charles and the defendant’s life that I didn’t want to miss a beat. This story definitely captured my attention from the start. Everything was so unpredictable even with some surprising reveals and outcomes. It was hard to predict anything....The characters were exceptional and I enjoyed how they played their parts in this drama. I admit at first I thought Mr. Margolin was rehashing the famous saga of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell but no to my relief a totally deferent spin and much more exciting.
This is an excellent read I give high score.
My thanks to St-Martin Press and Netgalley for this ARC I am pleased to share my thoughts show less
A little too long intro:
We are introduced to a new attorney, a third rate one who graduated from a third rate law school that couldn’t get a position at any major law firm so he opened his own law firm. Charles Webb takes on cases from dubious friends from his past show more and court appointed cases. Guido Sabatini, a talented artist and a nut job was his latest appointee to defend. Guido had sold one of his paintings to a restaurant owner and has liberated it along with a flash drive from the safe...At the time the restaurant owner and her partner were under investigation for sex trafficking of minors....With bargaining power knowing that the content of the flash drive threatens very powerful figures, Guido played all his cards but toying with criminals that wanted at any cost to retrieve the flash drive ...even going as far as murder may not be a good strategy.
It didn’t take long for the insignificant Charles to be plunged into more than a simple case defending Guido but into a sensational double murder....
My very long thoughts:
I simply love this story there is so much going on and so many twists and turns to face that I didn’t want to put the book down. I was so captivated by the coming and going and the many characters that crossed the pages many of them had important roles in both Charles and the defendant’s life that I didn’t want to miss a beat. This story definitely captured my attention from the start. Everything was so unpredictable even with some surprising reveals and outcomes. It was hard to predict anything....The characters were exceptional and I enjoyed how they played their parts in this drama. I admit at first I thought Mr. Margolin was rehashing the famous saga of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell but no to my relief a totally deferent spin and much more exciting.
This is an excellent read I give high score.
My thanks to St-Martin Press and Netgalley for this ARC I am pleased to share my thoughts show less
Robin Lockwood, former MMA fighter and now prominent defence attorney in Portland Oregon, is hired by her old fight cage nemesis, Mandy Kerrigan, who has been accused of a particularly heinous crime. A family of four has been brutally murdered and Mandy had been seen, earlier fighting with the son and, later at the time of the murder, pounding on the door of the family’s home. Robin thinks she might be innocent but the evidence is against her. The only hope is to find other possible show more suspects and, as it turns out, every member of the family had done things to make them a target but is there enough evidence against any of these possibilities to keep Mandy off death row?
It’s been quite a while since I read a Phillip Margolin legal thriller but, after reading Betrayal, that’s an oversight I plan to rectify in the very near future. It’s a smart, well-written, and entertaining tale that kept me guessing right up to the big reveal at the end. The characters are well-drawn and easy to like or hate and Robin makes for one bad-ass protagonist. It is also very fast-paced thanks to Margolin’s use of short chapters and dialogue. There’s plenty of action outside the courtroom but it was the action inside the courtroom I found most compelling. Although this is the seventh in the Robin Lockwood series, it can be read as a standalone.
I received an arc of this book from Netgalley and St Martin Press in exchange for an honest review show less
It’s been quite a while since I read a Phillip Margolin legal thriller but, after reading Betrayal, that’s an oversight I plan to rectify in the very near future. It’s a smart, well-written, and entertaining tale that kept me guessing right up to the big reveal at the end. The characters are well-drawn and easy to like or hate and Robin makes for one bad-ass protagonist. It is also very fast-paced thanks to Margolin’s use of short chapters and dialogue. There’s plenty of action outside the courtroom but it was the action inside the courtroom I found most compelling. Although this is the seventh in the Robin Lockwood series, it can be read as a standalone.
I received an arc of this book from Netgalley and St Martin Press in exchange for an honest review show less
This stand-alone crime novel features Charlie Webb, supposedly a “third-rate” lawyer in Portland, Oregon who gets by handling minor legal matters for friends along with some court-appointed cases, one of which he gets as the story opens. He was assigned to defend Lawrence Weiss, a.k.a. Guido Sabatini, who admitted to stealing back a painting he sold to Gretchen Hall. Guido wanted her to display it in her restaurant, but instead she kept it in her private office, thus depriving the world, show more in Guido’s mind, from appreciating his art.
Guido not only stole the painting back, but took a flash drive from the safe over which the painting was hanging for possible leverage. (He didn’t know what was on it initially, but he reasoned that if it was in the safe, it might be valued enough by Gretchen to convince her to rehang his painting.) The flash drive turned out to be extremely important indeed, and some very powerful figures wanted it back. They couldn’t kill Guido since no one knew where he had stashed it, but others end up dead in pursuit of the drive. Guido was now suspected of multiple homicides, and wouldn’t accept any other attorney but Charlie.
Charlie had never handled a homicide, and was afraid he couldn’t offer competent representation, especially because he thought Guido was innocent and he wanted to do right by him.
Charlie requested help from the judge, and to his surprise, both sides of the matter got some very big legal hitters volunteering to help. Something was suspicious, with the machinations and life-threatening encounters way above Charlie’s pay grade.
The plot seemed inspired by the case of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and all the secrecy and scandals associated with their sex trafficking operations. But by concentrating on Charlie and how he handled any issues that arose, the author made matters both more tasteful and very understandable. In addition, the story brought to bear the question of legal justice versus vigilante justice, and whether the latter ever made more sense. As Charlie later mused, “Sometimes a person does something that’s against the law that you can’t help feeling is justified.” And yet, making one’s own laws wasn’t a good approach either.
Evaluation: This book was quite entertaining, with my only regret being that it was written as a stand-alone novel. I would love to see more books featuring Charlie Webb. show less
Guido not only stole the painting back, but took a flash drive from the safe over which the painting was hanging for possible leverage. (He didn’t know what was on it initially, but he reasoned that if it was in the safe, it might be valued enough by Gretchen to convince her to rehang his painting.) The flash drive turned out to be extremely important indeed, and some very powerful figures wanted it back. They couldn’t kill Guido since no one knew where he had stashed it, but others end up dead in pursuit of the drive. Guido was now suspected of multiple homicides, and wouldn’t accept any other attorney but Charlie.
Charlie had never handled a homicide, and was afraid he couldn’t offer competent representation, especially because he thought Guido was innocent and he wanted to do right by him.
Charlie requested help from the judge, and to his surprise, both sides of the matter got some very big legal hitters volunteering to help. Something was suspicious, with the machinations and life-threatening encounters way above Charlie’s pay grade.
The plot seemed inspired by the case of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and all the secrecy and scandals associated with their sex trafficking operations. But by concentrating on Charlie and how he handled any issues that arose, the author made matters both more tasteful and very understandable. In addition, the story brought to bear the question of legal justice versus vigilante justice, and whether the latter ever made more sense. As Charlie later mused, “Sometimes a person does something that’s against the law that you can’t help feeling is justified.” And yet, making one’s own laws wasn’t a good approach either.
Evaluation: This book was quite entertaining, with my only regret being that it was written as a stand-alone novel. I would love to see more books featuring Charlie Webb. show less
Sin duda el mejor ingrediente en una novela negra es el asesino que presenta y los asesinatos que ha cometido, seguido de esto, la investigación policial o lo que sea que marque el perseguir, buscar pruebas y dar con quien es el asesino y luego atraparlo, pues bueno, este libro no entrega eso, pero tiene más, mucho más.
He leído muchos libros de corte policiaco o novela negra, la mayoría me gustan, pero creo que son pocos que me dejan con este buen sabor de boca y con la emoción de show more haberme leído un libro que sobrepasa a la media en historia y calidad.
A los que nos gusta el género, no hay nada mejor que un libro que nos sorprenda por donde se le mire, este libro es brutal y tiene además una historia que a simple vista o en principio parecería simple o sencilla y de repente ¡BAM! te tumba del asiento, te hace sospechar en la culpabilidad del asesino y cuando crees que ya tienes todas las piezas, ahí viene de nuevo el golpe y ¡BAM! que no todo es lo que parece.
Como me encantaría poder poner aquí todo lo que estoy pensando sobre la historia, pero eso sería revelar demasiado y este libro, si deciden leerlo, tiene que sorprenderlos como lo ha hecho conmigo, hay que ir divagando entre la certeza de la culpabilidad, para luego dudar de esas certezas y sospechar que existe incriminación y persecución a un inocente y luego toparse con el grandioso giro de historia que tiene este libro.
Aunque es un libro de corte policial, también nos topamos con un thriller jurídico, no vamos a encontrar juicios largos, pero si, lo que tienen que pasar un abogado defensor y el fiscal para manejar este caso.
Un libro que sin duda recomiendo totalmente, imperdible. show less
He leído muchos libros de corte policiaco o novela negra, la mayoría me gustan, pero creo que son pocos que me dejan con este buen sabor de boca y con la emoción de show more haberme leído un libro que sobrepasa a la media en historia y calidad.
A los que nos gusta el género, no hay nada mejor que un libro que nos sorprenda por donde se le mire, este libro es brutal y tiene además una historia que a simple vista o en principio parecería simple o sencilla y de repente ¡BAM! te tumba del asiento, te hace sospechar en la culpabilidad del asesino y cuando crees que ya tienes todas las piezas, ahí viene de nuevo el golpe y ¡BAM! que no todo es lo que parece.
Como me encantaría poder poner aquí todo lo que estoy pensando sobre la historia, pero eso sería revelar demasiado y este libro, si deciden leerlo, tiene que sorprenderlos como lo ha hecho conmigo, hay que ir divagando entre la certeza de la culpabilidad, para luego dudar de esas certezas y sospechar que existe incriminación y persecución a un inocente y luego toparse con el grandioso giro de historia que tiene este libro.
Aunque es un libro de corte policial, también nos topamos con un thriller jurídico, no vamos a encontrar juicios largos, pero si, lo que tienen que pasar un abogado defensor y el fiscal para manejar este caso.
Un libro que sin duda recomiendo totalmente, imperdible. show less
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