The Perfect Alibi By Phillip Margolin

The second in the Robin Lockwood series. It’s another good one.

A young woman accuses a prominent local college athlete of rape. Convicted with the help of undisputable DNA evidence, Blaine Hastings swears his innocence and threatens both his lawyer and his accuser as he’s sent to prison. Not long after, there’s another rape and the DNA test shows that the same person committed both rapes—which is seemingly impossible since the man convicted of the first rape was in prison at the time of the second one. Now, the convicted athlete, joined by a new lawyer, is granted a new trial and bail. Shortly thereafter, his original lawyer disappears and his law partner is murdered.

Robin Lockwood is a young lawyer with a prestigious but small law firm and a former MMA fighter who helped pay for Yale Law School with her bouts. She is representing the victim of the first rape in her civil lawsuit against her rapist. Her client is now convinced the rapist is stalking her and trying to intimidate her. At the same time, another client is up on a murder charge—one that should be dismissed as self-defense—but the D.A. trying the case is determined to bring it to trial.

Lockwood has to mastermind two impossible cases and try to find if there is a hidden truth that links the two of them.