Hiya everyone! Welcome back to my blog. Today, I am bringing my late review for By Way of Sorrow by Robyn Gigl. Thanks to VERVE Books for including me on the tour and the gifted book to write my honest review.
Erin McCabe is a New Jersey criminal defense attorney doing her best to live quietly in the wake of a profound personal change – until a newsworthy case puts her whole life at risk… Erin McCabe has been referred the biggest case of her career. Four months ago, the son of a New Jersey state senator was found fatally stabbed in a rundown motel near Atlantic City.
Sharise Barnes, a nineteen-year-old transgender sex worker, is in custody, and, based on the evidence against her, there seems little doubt of a guilty verdict. As a transgender woman herself, Erin knows that defending Sharise will blow her own private life wide open and doubtless deepen her estrangement from her family. Yet she feels uniquely qualified to help Sharise and duty-bound to protect her from the possibility of a death sentence.
While Erin works with her law partner, former-FBI-agent Duane Swisher, to show Sharise acted in self-defense, the senator begins using the full force of his influence to publicly discredit them and their efforts to mount a defense for Sharise. And behind the scenes, his tactics are even more dangerous. For his son had secrets that could destroy the senator’s own political aspirations – secrets worth killing for…
Robyn Gigl and other authors like her are one of the main reasons I run a book blog. Her debut book, By Way Of Sorrow, is a legal thriller that also brings to the forefront issues that are, oh, so relevant today.
I connected with this book even more than I thought I would. It’s a superbly written story that’s gripping and has so much drama packed into it. The first in the Erin McCabe Legal Thriller series, this book has definitely got it off to a great start.
The characters themselves are so well created. Erin is the main character and one heck of a great woman. Strong and fiesty. I took her straight to my heart. I got so involved in the story and felt like I was part of the investigation. As the pages flew by, I became more and more intrigued.
The way Robyn Gigl brings the issues for anyone who identifies as transgender are so well done. I have a transgender son, and I have a lot of understanding of the issues they come up against. I think it’s brilliant to read a book with transgender characters. It gives me hope for the future and for my son.
A truly well woven legal thriller that brings everything needed to make it a book that I wish I hadn’t finished so fast!
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