Comments on: Solomon vs. Lord

By: Bookgasm » Blog Archive » Trial & Error

Bookgasm » Blog Archive » Trial & Error — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:56:11 +0000

[...] charm of the books – on display in the first three titles: SOLOMON VS. LORD by Paul Levine, THE DEEP BLUE ALIBI and KILL ALL THE LAWYERS – comes from the contrast between [...]

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Kill All the Lawyers » Bookgasm — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:07:09 +0000

[...] I like Paul Levine and his series of Solomon vs. Lord legal thrillers, of which KILL ALL THE LAWYERS is the third (the first two, SOLOMON VS. LORD and THE DEEP BLUE ALIBI, were both reviewed here positively). His cast of characters includes Steve Solomon, a charming but reckless defense lawyer who plays by his own set of rules, and the counterfoil and love of his life, Victoria Lord, who plays by the rules and is fairly strict about them. Sure, it’s clichéd and we’ve seen this dynamic a hundred times, but Levine works some charm into it and adds the complication of Steven’s nephew, Bobby, who is half-genius, half-damaged from a horrifying upbringing. [...]

By: Bookgasm » BOOK WHORE >> 1.31.06

Bookgasm » BOOK WHORE >> 1.31.06 — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:59:35 +0000

[...] • Miles away from that universe is THE DEEP BLUE ALIBI, Paul Levine’s immediate sequel to SOLOMON VS. LORD, the dueling-lawyers mystery that seems like it just came out last week. And before you blink – okay, August – he’ll have the third installment out, called KILL ALL THE LAWYERS. Now there’s a concept we can get behind. We’ll have a review of ALIBI ready in, oh … five days ago. [...]

By: Bookgasm » The Deep Blue Alibi

Bookgasm » The Deep Blue Alibi — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:01:44 +0000

[...] I gave a fairly tepid review to Paul Levine’s first book featuring the lawyer characters of Stephen Solomon and Victoria Lord, cleverly titled SOLOMON VS. LORD. It wasn’t terrible, but it was riddled with clichés and stock character situations that came directly out of Lifetime Channel movies. Still, in spite of these flaws, the pace of the novel was relentless, and the addition of a tricky custody battle centering around Bobby, the semi-autistic 11-year-old nephew of Stephen, was a strong enough emotional hook to make the reader care about the story. [...]