This is one of the books in the Dismas Hardy series. And it did not disappoint. In this story, Hardy’s reliable and trusted secretary/assistant, Phyllis, misses a couple of days of work. The next thing Dismas knows, Phyllis is arrested as an accessory to murder. Plus, Dismas finds out that she has been part of ring for getting illegal citizens to safety from deportation. But Phyllis assures him that she was not an accessory to the murder. Nor was the woman Phyllis was helping and who is being accused of the murder. Hardy soon finds that the new district attorney, to whom Hardy’s new law partner recently lost an election, is working hard to make sure there is a conviction in the case and has rushed the case to the grand jury.
The writer adds the twist that Phyllis’s brother, who was recently released from prison, has come to stay with Phyllis, but we soon find out that he has much to gain at his sister’s expense.
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