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Irreparable Harm
Irreparable Harm (Sasha McCandless Legal Thriller #1)
by
Melissa F. Miller (Goodreads Author)
There's an app for everything. Even evil.
Attorney Sasha McCandless is closing in on the prize after eight long years: she's months away from being made partner at a prestigious law firm. All she has to do is keep her head down and her billable hours up.
Then a plane operated by her client slams into the side of a mountain, killing everyone aboard. Sasha gears up to prepare...more
Attorney Sasha McCandless is closing in on the prize after eight long years: she's months away from being made partner at a prestigious law firm. All she has to do is keep her head down and her billable hours up.
Then a plane operated by her client slams into the side of a mountain, killing everyone aboard. Sasha gears up to prepare...more
Kindle Edition, First Edition, 307 pages
Published
April 20th 2011
by Brown Street Books
(first published April 19th 2011)
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I enjoyed that Miller chose a somewhat unusual setting (Pittsburgh) for her debut legal thriller, Irreparable Harm. She was obviously writing about an environment she knows well, as this former patron of Pamela's Diner can attest. :-) Her descriptions of life inside a Big Law defense firm also rang true, as did her insightful observations regarding the ways that the personal relationships between attorneys and judges can subtly but monumentally impact cases at crucial times.
Lawyers can be a part...more
Lawyers can be a part...more
First paragraphs, "Somewhere in the air over Blacksburg, Virginia The old man checked his new gold watch, given in appreciation for his fifty years’ of service to the City of Pittsburgh. He lifted the window screen and pressed his head against the oval window in the side of the plane. The glass was cold against his papery skin. Somewhere out in the darkness the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia rose up from the land. He looked hard but couldn’t see them. He pulled the screen back down, more shar...more
The legal thriller "Irreparable Harm", by Melissa F. Miller begins with an airliner crashing into the side of a mountain for no apparent reason. All aboard are killed.
Sasha McCandless is a lawyer on track to soon make partner in her large law firm. The airline company is a client of the firm and the team scrambles to prepare for the inevitable law suits resulting from the accident. Until she discovers it wasn't an accident.
A company has developed an application that can take over control of a...more
Sasha McCandless is a lawyer on track to soon make partner in her large law firm. The airline company is a client of the firm and the team scrambles to prepare for the inevitable law suits resulting from the accident. Until she discovers it wasn't an accident.
A company has developed an application that can take over control of a...more
I really liked this legal thriller. The main character is Sasha McCandless who is an attorney, hoping to make partner at the law firm she works for. Her law firm represents Hemisphere Air, an airline who has had a plane just crash into the side of the mountain. Sasha gets caught up in this case and has to use her Krav Maga training several times to defend herself from attacks. I really liked Sasha as a main female character. She is independent, strong and follows her conscience, but she also sho...more
I really enjoyed this book. It's a legal thriller featuring petite lawyer Sasha McCandless who's a rising star in her firm and who is also a fierce warrior training in a self defence type of "martial" arts called Kava Magna. She ends up having to use her training a few times through the course of the book!
The book starts with a plane crash that seems obviously triggered by something a passenger did with a phone. Who is he? why did he do it? Who is he working for? It's not called terrorism but re...more
The book starts with a plane crash that seems obviously triggered by something a passenger did with a phone. Who is he? why did he do it? Who is he working for? It's not called terrorism but re...more
Dec 04, 2011
Denise
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Fans of Legal Thrillers, Everyone
Recommended to Denise by:
Library Thing
I won this book through a LibraryThing Member's Giveaway. I am so glad that I won this book. I am a big fan of legal thrillers and this book is an amazing legal thriller. I was on the edge of my seat throughout the whole book.
This book follows Sasha McCandless, an attorney at a large legal firm. The airline that Sasha's firm represents has just had one of their planes crash, and now Sasha's firm must defend the airline against a lawsuit. Lawsuits aren't the only thing that Sasha has to fight aga...more
This book follows Sasha McCandless, an attorney at a large legal firm. The airline that Sasha's firm represents has just had one of their planes crash, and now Sasha's firm must defend the airline against a lawsuit. Lawsuits aren't the only thing that Sasha has to fight aga...more
FYI: I received a free copy of this book to review.
Irreparable Harm completely entertained me. I read it as fast as I could. Sasha is a wonderful character and I had a blast reading about her. I always try to guess whodunit, and I'm usually wrong. This time I got it right pretty quickly, but it didn't detract from the book. I still enjoyed reading the story play out. Miller does a decent job explaining the legal jargon, though I admit my eyes glazed over during some of those paragraphs. The lawy...more
Irreparable Harm completely entertained me. I read it as fast as I could. Sasha is a wonderful character and I had a blast reading about her. I always try to guess whodunit, and I'm usually wrong. This time I got it right pretty quickly, but it didn't detract from the book. I still enjoyed reading the story play out. Miller does a decent job explaining the legal jargon, though I admit my eyes glazed over during some of those paragraphs. The lawy...more
Great story even if you aren't a lawyer or 5' tall woman or someone who work(s)(ed) at a big law firm. If you are any of the above, then I think you will enjoy the book that much more. The big firm setting is captured so well, both in obvious description ("this is how it is at big firms....") and in the images that you are enticed to imagine. It is a thriller, so the fight scenes are somewhat detailed. I suppose the details are needed to make the outcome of the fights seem plausible. Not may fav...more
An excellent legal thriller that will keep the reader on the edge of their seat and guessing where the clues will lead next. The heroine is a small feisty attorney who becomes involved in a case when an airplane crashes. The airline company is a major client of the law firm she works for and her mentor is the lead lawyer for the company. There seems to be something fishy about the crash and as she investigates she turns up more and more evidence that there is more to the crash then just bad mech...more
Solid story, classic happy ending. Plot was great, good characters, funny without going over the top, the way a mystery should be. Although the author chose to insert pieces back-story in places was not needed to expand on their motivations. It broke up the flow of the story, and was distracting. It made me think of the author writing the book, and thinking through how the character would react in the situation rather than BEING in the situation as the rest of the book led you to feel. It was sm...more
What a wonderful debut novel! Irreparable Harm appears to be the first published full length novel by author Melissa Miller after Dark Blooms, a collection of two crime shorts. Ms. Miller has created an engaging and memorable heroine in Sasha McCandless sure to have readers clamoring for more books.
Sasha is a successful attorney on the partner track of a prestigious law firm. The author draws on her own legal background to write convincingly about the law firm and court room experience remindin...more
Sasha is a successful attorney on the partner track of a prestigious law firm. The author draws on her own legal background to write convincingly about the law firm and court room experience remindin...more
The author is an intelligent and obviously a very accomplished lawyer. This is a wonderfully conceived story with esoteric lawyering. Not only is the story captivating, but the female protagonist is equally magnetic.She is the lawyer married to her job in a high powered law firm of the highest order where one misstep can cost an associate a chance for partnership.
Sasha is small in physical stature but tough as nails mentally and physically.She fends away potential bad men with a strain of martia...more
Sasha is small in physical stature but tough as nails mentally and physically.She fends away potential bad men with a strain of martia...more
Irreparable Harm is one of those books you just don't want to end.
The first book in the Sasha McCandless series is superbly written and introduces the kick-ass lawyer who has become one of my favourite characters.
The story starts off with the unfortunate crash of a passenger plane, but the twists and turns which follow with have you turning the pages eagerly to see where this great mystery leads.
A terrific legal thriller, written by someone with first hand knowledge of the legal system that riva...more
The first book in the Sasha McCandless series is superbly written and introduces the kick-ass lawyer who has become one of my favourite characters.
The story starts off with the unfortunate crash of a passenger plane, but the twists and turns which follow with have you turning the pages eagerly to see where this great mystery leads.
A terrific legal thriller, written by someone with first hand knowledge of the legal system that riva...more
I am *not* a fan of legal thrillers but the airline link intrigued me so decided to try this as it was a free download. I'm very glad I did.
Not the usual 'lawyer mystery' at all. The airline crash investigation as the main element of the plot was a plus and the main character was very much an individual and the type of person I find interesting.
The law enforcement end of things seemed a little unrealistic at times, but I did not find it overly distracting. Very entertaining read and I've already...more
Not the usual 'lawyer mystery' at all. The airline crash investigation as the main element of the plot was a plus and the main character was very much an individual and the type of person I find interesting.
The law enforcement end of things seemed a little unrealistic at times, but I did not find it overly distracting. Very entertaining read and I've already...more
After eight long years, attorney Sasha McCandless is about to make partner at a prestigious law firm. All she has to do is keep her head down and her billable hours up. When a plane operated by her client slams into the side of a mountain, killing everyone aboard, Sasha gears up to defend the inevitable civil lawsuits. She soon realizes the crash was no accident: a developer has created an application that can control a commercial plane's onboard computer from a smartphone.
A fast-paced thriller...more
A fast-paced thriller...more
The author through LibraryThing giveaways provided a free copy of this book.
This legal thriller is a real page-turner.
This is the story of the attorney Sasha McCandless who is trying to become a partner in a prestigious law firm. In order to demonstrate her skills, she is put in charge of a mysterious plane crash.
During her investigation, she meets Leo Connelly, an US Marshal, and they constitute an efficient couple detective.
Even if in the middle of the plot a lot of legal terminology comes up,...more
This legal thriller is a real page-turner.
This is the story of the attorney Sasha McCandless who is trying to become a partner in a prestigious law firm. In order to demonstrate her skills, she is put in charge of a mysterious plane crash.
During her investigation, she meets Leo Connelly, an US Marshal, and they constitute an efficient couple detective.
Even if in the middle of the plot a lot of legal terminology comes up,...more
Good leagal thriller set in Pittsburgh. Shasha McCandless is a pint sized lawyer in a big firm who becomes involved in the defense of the airline whose plane crashed killing all aboard. When it truns out its not an accident she gets deeper in trouble as she investigates and is singled out as the target of thugs hired to recover evidence and silence her. Little do they know that she is well versed in Krav Maga, a form of martial art self defense. Along the way she connects with Special Agent of t...more
I really loved this book; I raced through it in no time, and actually wished it had been a bit longer. It's a fast-paced mixture of legal drama and thriller, with tiny, ninja-esque heroine Sasha taking matters into her own hands when she discovers that one of her cases is linked into a deadly plot. Sasha is a workaholic who nevertheless manages to train as a top-notch martial artist in her spare time, but she's also a sympathetic, convincing character with a caffeine addiction and a stubborn str...more
(A version of this review will also appear on Amazon.co.uk)
As a fan of both Air Crash Investigation-style documentaries and legal thrillers, the synopsis of Irreparable Harm - emailed to me by reviewing site BookRooster.com, app...more
There’s a smartphone app that can crash a plane. And it's for sale to the highest bidder. Attorney Sasha MacCandless soon realises the crash was no accident: a developer has created an application that can control a commercial plane's on-board computer from a smartphone.
As a fan of both Air Crash Investigation-style documentaries and legal thrillers, the synopsis of Irreparable Harm - emailed to me by reviewing site BookRooster.com, app...more
Finished "Irreparable Harm" by Melissa F.Miller. Free kindle book. Enjoyed it. Love airline disasters and legal thrillers. The lead character had to dance a complicated waltz when she had information that could not be divulged due to attorney/client privilege. But she had to get the information out there to prevent another plane from being deliberately crashed. The legal theories used were accurate and the plot was plausible despite some action scenes that were over the top.
Legal Thrillers Are One of My Reading Passions...but lately it seems almost impossible to find a believable page-turner! This one filled the bill though. Sasha McCandless is not only a strong lady, diligent litigator and relentless researcher but also someone to like.
Join Sasha as she puts her life on the line to unravel the mysteries involved with the crash of Hemisphere Flight No. 1667 and seemingly joins the 'other team' in presenting a case of 'Irreparable Harm'.
Join Sasha as she puts her life on the line to unravel the mysteries involved with the crash of Hemisphere Flight No. 1667 and seemingly joins the 'other team' in presenting a case of 'Irreparable Harm'.
Irreparable Harm by Melissa F. Miller is a fast paced riveting
page-turner! I couldn’t put it down and it consumed my entire weekend until I finished the very last page! The storyline is believable and full of suspense! I fell in love with the characters and am hoping she brings them back in another story. Melissa F. Miller has incredible talent as a writer and her knowledge of the legal system is very thorough. I am really looking forward to her next book.
page-turner! I couldn’t put it down and it consumed my entire weekend until I finished the very last page! The storyline is believable and full of suspense! I fell in love with the characters and am hoping she brings them back in another story. Melissa F. Miller has incredible talent as a writer and her knowledge of the legal system is very thorough. I am really looking forward to her next book.
This is a fun, suspenseful story and the main character is intriguing and admirable. As a lawyer, I also appreciate how the legal aspects of the book are pretty realistic; I think the author is a lawyer too, so that makes sense. I look forward to the next installment in the series. The only downside is that the Kindle version seems to have a number of editing errors. Nonetheless, the errors did not detract too much from my enjoyment of the story.
Another book I picked up free. Sasha McCandless is an attorney in a presigous firm on her way to being a partner. Then an airline ( a major client) has a plane crash and that's when all the excitement starts. Sasha can certainly take care of herself when confronting anyone who tries to intimidate her. While their certainly were some cliches and I did figure out some of the people involved, it was a good book that I didn't want to put down,
I really enjoyed getting to know the little fireball Sasha McCandless in this first of three books. Miller creates really good characters and this book kept me interested from beginning to end so that I read it quickly. This was my favorite of this series' book. They are all free on Amazon Prime from the lending library and I REALLY love finding good stuff like this in the lending library! I recommend checking it out!
This book by Miller is one that all legal buffs and those interested in mysteries will definitely enjoy. The characters are well developed and the plot is very interesting and keeps you turning the pages to find out what happens next. It appears that this is not the only book about the main character and that is good because it should be read also.
J. Robert Ewbank author "John Wesley, Natural Man, and the 'Isms'"
J. Robert Ewbank author "John Wesley, Natural Man, and the 'Isms'"
Needed to have some fun after reading "work related" books. This was a hyper-discounted book on my Kindle that I had purchased so I dug in... and it was a page turner. Some of the plot lines were too easy and a bit far fetched for me... like... why would this lawyer take these sojourns to investigate a potential crime of an airplane being deliberately crashed. Why not just notify the authorities?
There's a smartphone app capable of crashing a commercial jet. And it's for sale to the highest bidder . . .
Attorney Sasha McCandless is closing in on the prize: After eight years of long hours, she's about to make partner at a prestigious law firm. All she has to do is keep her head down and her billable hours up.
Free Kindle download - I liked Sasha, she is tiny in size but don't underestimate her.
Attorney Sasha McCandless is closing in on the prize: After eight years of long hours, she's about to make partner at a prestigious law firm. All she has to do is keep her head down and her billable hours up.
Free Kindle download - I liked Sasha, she is tiny in size but don't underestimate her.
I really enjoy well written legal thrillers and this book truly met this criteria. I read this entire book in a single weekend and wanted more - I just could not put it down. The pace is frantic, the plot complex and scarily realistic, the legal environment cut-throat, and the main character interesting and well-developed. I look forward to more Sasha McCandless novels. Definitely worth the read.
Great legal thriller! Hooked me in the opening of the book and kept my attention throughout. The suspense/mystery was very well written and you could truly feel the attorney's inner struggle with wanting to 'do right' by her client ... her profession ... and possible future crash victims. Would definitely consider other books by this author. Book could have used a bit more editing - several typos/misspellings, etc.
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I am a writer, mother, wife, and lawyer. I write crime fiction.
I have been writing since my fingers could grasp a pencil. (Note to mom: no need to dig those early works out of the attic!)
I have a degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania (with a double concentration in medieval literature and creative writing poetry).
After college, I worked as an editor for three years before attendin...more
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