Jail Coach ~ Paperback ~ Hillary Bell Locke

"I hadn't recognized them, but I knew the names-and not from Proxy's briefing book. One of the top criminal law boutiques in California. In other words, Oh, shit." -from Jail Coach Kent Trowbridge, Hollywood bad boy, played late-night bumper car in his shiny new Ferrari, and now he's facing county time. Enter Loss Prevention specialist Jay Davidovich, veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan. Davidovich starts by hiring jail coach Katrina Thompson to help Trowbridge survive incarceration and minimize the interruption to the movie project in progress. But Katrina arrives with some baggage in tow. Everyone falls for her adorable toddler. No one falls for Stan Chaladian, a ruthless hustler from ex-Marine Katrina's unorthodox past. Can Jay keep Katrina and Trowbridge from costing the company? Hillary Bell Locke graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, worked for a prominent New York law firm, and now practices law in a city far from New York.Author BiographyMike Bowen, a trial lawyer practicing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is the author of numerous mystery novels, including "Screenscam" (2002), which introduced Rep and Melissa Pennyworth. Bowen has been a member and moderator of panels at several Bouchercons and has made presentations at numerous other mystery-related events. He wrote the entry on The American Legal System for the "Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing," and was a member of the panels that selected the winner of the 1995 Edgar Award for Best Mystery and the 1996 Edgar Award for Best Critical or Biographical Work.Bowen graduated "cum laude" from Harvard Law School in 1976. While at Harvard, he served on the Board of Editors of the "Harvard Law Review," and was a member of the winning team and was named the best oralist in the Ames Competition (moot court). Bowen lives with his wife, Sara Armbruster Bowen and their younger children, John, Marguerite and James, in Fox Point, a suburb of Milwaukee.