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The Paralegal Speaks
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781733669887
Publisher: Tree of the Field Publishing
Published: Jun 15 2026
Pages: 266
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Meet Martha.
She's not a lawyer, nor does she need to be. From her double-sized cubicle in a small-town Washington law office, Martha sees everything, hears everything, and quietly keeps the whole operation from going off the rails-while her boss, Mark Adams, takes all the credit and rakes in the big bucks.
This is the story of four cases that land on Martha's desk in a single week: A drunk driver who killed his best friend. An insurance agent who robbed sweet old ladies and called it a paperwork problem. A woman with a bus-related injury in a very personal location. And a disabled man who went into the Kitsap County Jail and came out unable to walk, with no one willing to explain why.
None of these cases is the clean, simple, rear-end collision Mark prefers, but they will all test the limits of the law, the patience of everyone involved, and Martha's ability to hold it all together while fielding a phone that never stops ringing.
The Paralegal Speaks takes you behind the polished façade of the legal system and into the daily grind of a one-lawyer shop where justice is complicated, outcomes are uncertain, and the truth has a way of hiding in plain sight-usually under a pile of papers on the credenza, inches from the lawyer's elbow.
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