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Michael Swiger
Lethal Ambition
Marcus Blanchard has worked for years to get to this night-to the eve of the Eleventh District Congressional race in Cleveland. He's determined to oust long-reigning, crooked politicians Julius McGee and William McLaughlin, and has asked his favorite law-school professor, Edward Mead, to witness the victory.
But just as the results are about to be announced, Marcus disappears...and a woman is murdered. Worse, Alontay Johnson is his old girlfriend, and he's caught crouching over her body. Did he strangle her, or was he framed? And who will believe him?
It's up to the quirky, arthritic Ed Mead, who hasn't been in a courtroom in years, to defend his friend and client...while the State of Ohio seeks the death penalty.
Lethal Objection
Everyone hates and fears the arrogant and verbally abusive Judge Samuel Chesterfield. But who hates him enough to murder him in his own chambers? Only the four trial lawyers had access and motive. And what-if anything-does the murder have to do with the sensational wrongful-death suit brought against a prominent abortionist?
Edward Mead, a distinguished law professor, acts as special prosecutor. No one knows the secret pain he hides, because he masks his inner turmoil behind a razor-sharp wit. But sometimes even he wonders: Do I, at seventy-six years old, still have what it takes to solve the case?
Special Agent Sarah Riehl sees the case as her one chance to shatter the suffocating glass ceiling that has defined her ten-year career at the FBI. And she's not about to let an old man's weaknesses ruin her chances. But her impetuous drive to success will propel her on a deadly collision course with the prime suspect...
MICHAEL SWIGER, a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Ohio University and an honors student at Reformed Theological Seminary, has published two novels under the pen name Michael Andrew. His first, A Trial of Innocents, was nominated for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize. His short stories and essays have appeared in numerous national publications.
Michael serves on the pastoral staff at The Gospel House Church in Walton Hills, Ohio, where he works in prison ministry. He is currently finishing the second in the Edward Mead Legal Thriller series: Lethal Objection.