The last goodbye

the long version

E-Book Extra: Who is Reed Arvin? An Interview with the AuthorFormerly elite lawyer Jack Hammond investigates a friend’s “alleged” overdose, and turns up spellbinding singer Michele Sonnier -- a troubled woman with deathly secrets. Jack’s weakness for women has already cost him a career, but he’ll risk his life to find the truth, which is buried deep in Michele’s mysterious world.From the hot new suspense writer critics predict will have Grisham fans “switching their allegiance in midstream” (Kirkus Reviews) comes a tale of love and murder set on the slick society streets of Atlanta.Sleeping with a client's gorgeous girlfriend may have been the gutsiest move in Jack Hammond's formerly booming law career, but it wasn't the smartest. Booted from his elite law firm, Jack now scrapes by as a court-appointed attorney, his client list a revolving door of small-time drug offenders and petty thieves. When his friend -- a computer whiz and former addict who'd brought his life back from the brink -- is found dead in his apartment with a syringe stuck in his arm, Jack knows something is very wrong.Where the cops see just another overdose, Jack sees a murder. Investigating the case, he learns that his friend was obsessed with a beautiful singer -- who also happens to be half of the most popular power couple in Atlanta.Talented and privileged, the spellbinding Michele Sonnieris nevertheless a deeply troubled woman, plagued by secrets. Against his better judgment -- and in a disturbing echo of his earlier fall from grace -- Jack is pulled further and further into her world, where he discovers more suspicious deaths, all pointing toward a mysterious cover-up.A volatile tale of love, betrayal, and murder shot through with tenderness and poignant humanity, The Last Goodbye is a riveting thriller with a thunderously beating heart, a masterful page-turner that probes the meaning of love and the burdens of the past.