The Jury (Sisterhood Series #4)

by Fern Michaels Narrated by Laural Merlington

Overview

The women of the Sisterhood know life isn't fair, but that doesn't mean they have to like it - or let it pass. Instead, these best friends share their joys, troubles, triumphs, heartaches and one collective mission: to right wrongs and bring justice where it is desperately needed. Even reeling from the loss of one of their own, the Sisterhood is always prepared to rally behind a new friend.

For years, Paula Woodley has suffered the broken bones and shattered self-esteem caused by an abusive marriage. But what can she do? Her high-profile, Washington power-broker husband is not a man to be crossed. Or so he thinks. The Sisterhood may not be an organization found in any of his memos, but he's about to take a meeting with them - and they'll be setting the agenda...

Editorial Reviews

Kirkus Reviews

The vigilantes of the Sisterhood take the law into their own hands once more, after devoting due consideration to exactly which law to break. Stung by her breakup with prosecutor-turned-private-eye Jack Emery (Vendetta, not reviewed), Virginia attorney Nikki Quinn allows her adoptive mother, Myra Rutledge, and Myra's solicitous lover, former MI6 agent Charles Martin, who's "on first-name terms with the Queen," to whisk her off to a recuperative tropical isle. While she's lying in the sun without a cell phone or Web access, Allison Banks, the demure associate she hired, is running her firm into the ground. Against the advice of Nikki's loyal office manager, Madeline Barrows, Allison's represented the dreadful Barringtons, con-artist neighbors whose starving horses Myra had rescued from certain death, and won them $10 million in damages from Myra. Fired and bloodied by Nikki, Allison vows revenge, but she vanishes as completely as Nikki's plan to take arms against the Barringtons. Instead, like last-minute shoppers trying to cash in a coupon before the store closes, the Sisterhood eventually goes after the president's best friend, wife-beating national security advisor Karl Woodley. The weasel is ringed round by secrecy and security, but will that stop the Sisterhood? Humph. Perennially bestselling Michaels (Family Blessings, 2004, etc.) spins a shapeless web of cliches without a trace of suspense or conviction. Even Nikki's sworn enemy Jack returns to her arms in time to taste some sweet revenge of his own.

DEC 06/JAN 07 - AudioFile

Laural Merlington gives voice to the members of Michaels’s “Sisterhood,” various women who have banded together under the tutelage of wealthy Myra Rutledge to exact revenge against those who have wronged women whom they care about. Their latest mission involves vengeance against Presidential Advisor Karl Woodley, who continues to physically abuse his wife. Merlington’s expert narration enables her to maintain the swift pace of the story while giving the characters a variety of perfect accents, including Myra’s cultured Southern tones and her lover, Charles’s, aristocratic British accent. Merlington’s sense of timing makes her characters believable as she shifts her vocal intensity to reflect the range of charged emotions experienced by the characters. S.M. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940172668463
Publisher:	Brilliance Audio
Publication date:	06/06/2006
Series:	Fern Michaels Sisterhood Series , #4
Edition description:	Unabridged

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