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The TimeKeepers
Jenn Bregman, author
A fast-paced thriller, The TimeKeepers plunges headlong into the depraved underbelly of Big Law and big money where greed is king, murder is incidental, and winning is the only thing that matters.
Attorney Sarah Brockman is young, idealistic, and naïve. Having left Big Law in search of work that would make a difference, she finds herself barely scraping by running her own personal injury law firm working for clients who can’t pay and pursuing causes she can’t win. Then a random horrific car crash shatters everything. Now she’s staring into the darkest shadows of the very system she’s dedicated her life to upholding, filled with corrupt judges, dirty cops and attorneys, offshore banking, massive fraud, and twists and turns through the highways and byways of Southern California, Mexico and the Cook Islands.
Facing off against a cunning and deranged adversary, Sarah is aided by a sharp-witted socialite, a felon and occasional crackhead, and a shameless Mexican raconteur. All while kindling a tender romance with Sam, her boyishly handsome new love, who has been following the same trail but from the other end—and the wrong side of the law.
Sarah feels invisible strings pulling her ever closer to the core of the conspiracy. But if she’s just a pawn in someone else’s game, are the strings being pulled for good or for bad? Or, even, both? And will she be on the side that wins?
Reviews
Bregman’s legal thriller featuring a plucky solo practitioner fighting for the little guy should appeal to John Grisham fans. Sarah Brockman spent two years as a litigation associate at a large California firm before her lack of job satisfaction led her to set up her own practice focusing on representing plaintiffs in personal injury cases. Her compassion trumps her business sense when she gets involved in another time-intensive, not particularly lucrative lawsuit after she witnesses a truck strike a pedestrian in a hit-and-run. Six months later, the victim’s son turns to her for help; the truck driver, Paul Rodriguez, was sentenced to just a $200 fine, and the victim, who suffered grievous facial injuries, wants to sue. Sarah’s investigator soon finds evidence undercutting the ostensible basis for the lenient sentence Rodriguez received, his indigence. That proves to be just the first bread crumb that puts Sarah and her allies on the trail of a complex conspiracy. Romance fans will enjoy a subplot involving a male attorney whose message that he’d call Sarah “lingered in the air like an overstuffed mosquito.” (BookLife)
