A Matter of Life and Death By Phillip Margolin

Joe Lattimore, homeless and trying desperately to provide for his young family, agrees to fight in an illegal, no-holds bar bout, only to have his opponent die. Lattimore now finds himself at the mercy of the fight’s organizers who blackmail him into burglarizing a house. However, when he breaks in, he finds a murdered woman on the floor. And then the police receive an anonymous tip naming him for the crime!

Robin Lockwood, an increasingly prominent young attorney and former MMA fighter, agrees to take on his defense. But the case is seemingly airtight—the murdered woman’s husband, Judge Anthony Carasco, has an alibi and Lattimore’s fingerprints are discovered at the scene. But everything about the case is too easy and too pat, and Lockwood is convinced that her client has been framed. The only problem is that she has no way of proving it and since this is a death case, if she fails then another innocent will die.

Welcome to the fourth volume in Phillip Margolin’s acclaimed Robin Lockwood series.