Betrayal

A Robin Lockwood Novel, Book 7

By: Phillip Margolin

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer

In Phillip Margolin's Betrayal, attorney Robin Lockwood finds herself defending her old nemesis in a multiple-murder case with too many suspects, where success might cost her own life.

Robin Lockwood is now a prominent defense attorney in Portland, Oregon but a decade ago, she was a ranked and rising MMA fighter. Her career came to a quick end when she was knocked out and concussed in the first round by Mandy Kerrigan, a much more talented fighter.

Now the situation couldn't be more different, with Kerrigan on her last legs, her career nearly over, arrested for the quadruple murder of the entire Finch family...and Kerrigan's only possible friend is the attorney she beat so many years ago.

For Robin, it's no simple case: Margaret Finch was a lawyer working for vicious Russian mobsters, and was in the cross-hairs of both the mobsters and the widower of a woman a client killed; her husband Nathan Finch was deeply in debt to a bookie who threatened his life; her son Ryan was the one who sold Kerrigan illegal performance enhancing drugs and was beaten severely by her when Kerrigan failed her drug test. To complicate matters further, the DA that Robin is facing is the man she's just started dating, the first person she's begun seeing seriously after her husband was killed.

In a case where the stakes are high and the truth is elusive, where each new fact twists the case in a new direction, there is seemingly no way to win or direction to turn that will leave Robin Lockwood unscathed.

A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books.

©2023 Phillip Margolin (P)2023 Macmillan Audio

Excellent book

Loved everything about the book
Highly recommend this book
Phillip Margolin is just the best author!!!

Are Margolin and Lockwood Losing Steam?

I've been listening to Phillip Margolin books for more than 25 years and eagerly pre-order everything that he writes. I really enjoy the Robin Lockwood series overall. Generally compelling characters, interesting plots, etc.

This one left me disappointed. The story was all too predictable. Outside of a twist to the end, the plot followed a pretty linear path. There really weren't spellbinding moments that I'll remember months from now. It was just a straight murder-and-trial novel. Margolin has set bar higher than this with his other works. This book is good, and for most authors it would rank among their best work. It simply doesn't represent the author at his sharpest.

I haven't soured on the author. This is the only one of his dozen or so books to which I've listened that I would rate fewer than five stars. I'll pre-order his next work and count the days until it's available for listening. But if someone unfamiliar with but interested in the work of the author asked me for a referral to a Phillip Margolin novel, this isn't one that I'd recommend.

Another Superb Margolin thriller

Terrific plot twists, surprising and satisfying denouement, witty main characters and well-developed secondary characters, one of which - Andy Chen, the SPEC OPS warrior - I HOPE to see in future Marvelous Margolin escapist thriller treats 😍👏. I love Margolin thrillers also because he does not (as many current thriller writers do) use the names God, Christ, and Jesus as his characters’ curses in circumstances requiring the expression of strong emotion.

twists and turns

hooked from the beginning. it's a roller coaster ride. you never know what will happen next and you can't wait to find out.

Narrator needs eork

Story is fine as usual, but the narrator should do some work before reading. The Vietnamese name "Nguyen" is pronounced "Win." The name is common in Vietnam like Smith or Jones.

Legal Magic

This complex tale moved fast and enjoyed a complex ending. A rather standard murder case suddenly becomes a shocking court experience that will leave the reader (and the court) breathless. Very satisfactory reading.

Lockwood Does It Again

loved the narrator and story line and glad Robin is back on her feet. She has found happiness.

Entertaining but not the best

I feel that this was a much weaker Robin Lockwood book. There was too much ah ha but without substance behind it. Or there was too much obvious things there were missed. The narrator was great as always.

A real whodunnit! 🤩

It would seem counterinintuitive, but I always like mysteries I am able to solve (obviously not by the third page!)  With this one I was able to figure out not only the who, but the why and how as well, and to me that means the story had a logic and that enough clues had been sprinkled throughout the story. And the narrator did a superb job, as always

Narrator was very good snd the story was easy to follow

Good story. Not as much legal jargon which I actually like. But enjoyed it very much for a good listen