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Butler's Justice
Emotions boil over in a bedroom in a home in Lane County, Mississippi. In a single rash act, one of three people in the room is shot dead. The question will become, who committed this heinous act. For the local detective, he makes a quick arrest of Ashley Butler, handing the case to the local District Attorney who sees it as a slam-dunk murder conviction. At least, that’s what he believed.
Monroe Lovett has moved to Peregrine, Mississippi to begin a new chapter of his life with his wife, Debbie. Years as a pastor have drained him of his desire to do church work. The only path he sees before him is going back into law. Taking a tip from a law school friend, he moves to Mississippi. Much to his chagrin, clients have not found their way to his office and he is beginning to question if he made the right decision in moving to Mississippi.
Ashley, not seeing much hope, feels that her life is about to end, if not physically, then by spending the rest of it behind bars. Finding herself in the office of Attorney, Monroe T. Lovett, she’s not even sure if he can help her. To do so, she must fight through a lifetime of hurt, face her own painful past, and doing that means learning to trust Monroe.
For Monroe, he is just glad to see his first a client walk through the door when he sees Ashley. After Ashley reveals to him her predicament, he knows that he has his hands full. In need of a case just to get his name out, and for the future of his law practice, Lovett takes the case. However, he gets more than a just a client. Monroe finds himself right in the middle of a family secret that even Ashley does not know about. No one in Lane County knows the truth the Butlers are hiding. And the family patriarch will sacrifice whomever he must to keep his secret.
Monroe isn't sure who is on his side and who is against him. As a stranger, faces an uphill battle. He must earn Ashley’s trust, while at the same time learning to trust the offering of a stranger’s help, Ed Hermann. At the same time, he encounters the local District Attorney who is interested in only one thing—winning the case.
After stumbling upon the Butler family secret, Monroe works to unravel the mystery as to the true identity and motive of Julie’s murderer. While uncovering this truth and seeking justice for Ashley, Monroe endures his own personal threats and pain.
Monroe Lovett has moved to Peregrine, Mississippi to begin a new chapter of his life with his wife, Debbie. Years as a pastor have drained him of his desire to do church work. The only path he sees before him is going back into law. Taking a tip from a law school friend, he moves to Mississippi. Much to his chagrin, clients have not found their way to his office and he is beginning to question if he made the right decision in moving to Mississippi.
Ashley, not seeing much hope, feels that her life is about to end, if not physically, then by spending the rest of it behind bars. Finding herself in the office of Attorney, Monroe T. Lovett, she’s not even sure if he can help her. To do so, she must fight through a lifetime of hurt, face her own painful past, and doing that means learning to trust Monroe.
For Monroe, he is just glad to see his first a client walk through the door when he sees Ashley. After Ashley reveals to him her predicament, he knows that he has his hands full. In need of a case just to get his name out, and for the future of his law practice, Lovett takes the case. However, he gets more than a just a client. Monroe finds himself right in the middle of a family secret that even Ashley does not know about. No one in Lane County knows the truth the Butlers are hiding. And the family patriarch will sacrifice whomever he must to keep his secret.
Monroe isn't sure who is on his side and who is against him. As a stranger, faces an uphill battle. He must earn Ashley’s trust, while at the same time learning to trust the offering of a stranger’s help, Ed Hermann. At the same time, he encounters the local District Attorney who is interested in only one thing—winning the case.
After stumbling upon the Butler family secret, Monroe works to unravel the mystery as to the true identity and motive of Julie’s murderer. While uncovering this truth and seeking justice for Ashley, Monroe endures his own personal threats and pain.
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385 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 11, 2014
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January 1, 2015
SUMMARY: Emotions boil over in a bedroom in a home in Lane County, Mississippi. In a single rash act, one of three people in the room is shot dead. The question will become, who committed this heinous act. For the local detective, he makes a quick arrest of Ashley Butler, handing the case to the local District Attorney who sees it as a slam-dunk murder conviction. At least, that’s what he believed.
Monroe Lovett has moved to Peregrine, Mississippi to begin a new chapter of his life with his wife, Debbie. Years as a pastor have drained him of his desire to do church work. The only path he sees before him is going back into law. Taking a tip from a law school friend, he moves to Mississippi. Much to his chagrin, clients have not found their way to his office and he is beginning to question if he made the right decision in moving to Mississippi.
Ashley, not seeing much hope, feels that her life is about to end, if not physically, then by spending the rest of it behind bars. Finding herself in the office of Attorney, Monroe T. Lovett, she’s not even sure if he can help her. To do so, she must fight through a lifetime of hurt, face her own painful past, and doing that means learning to trust Monroe.
For Monroe, he is just glad to see his first a client walk through the door when he sees Ashley. After Ashley reveals to him her predicament, he knows that he has his hands full. In need of a case just to get his name out, and for the future of his law practice, Lovett takes the case. However, he gets more than a just a client. Monroe finds himself right in the middle of a family secret that even Ashley does not know about. No one in Lane County knows the truth the Butlers are hiding. And the family patriarch will sacrifice whomever he must to keep his secret.
Monroe isn't sure who is on his side and who is against him. As a stranger, faces an uphill battle. He must earn Ashley’s trust, while at the same time learning to trust the offering of a stranger’s help, Ed Hermann. At the same time, he encounters the local District Attorney who is interested in only one thing—winning the case.
After stumbling upon the Butler family secret, Monroe works to unravel the mystery as to the true identity and motive of Julie’s murderer. While uncovering this truth and seeking justice for Ashley, Monroe endures his own personal threats and pain.
REVIEW: Written in a similar vein as Randy Singer, this legal thriller keeps you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. Butler's Justice has it all twists, turns, surprises, romance and intrigue. It's a story of corruption but also of truth and faith. The characters were well-developed and the story line and setting fit quite well with the small southern town image. I would have given this a 5 but for lack of editing and many typos and grammatical errors felt I had to score it a 4. Would like to read more stories starring Monroe Lovett.
FAVORITE QUOTES: "You've never said anything about God or Jesus. Are you, for lack of a better term, religious?" "Religious? No. Jesus? It's simple. He leads...I follow"
"I don't know if you remember, Mr. Lovett, but you told me to trust God......Well, anyway, I decided to do that. I put my trust in God. If it wasn't for Jesus, well...I don't know--He gave me the strength to trust you."
Monroe Lovett has moved to Peregrine, Mississippi to begin a new chapter of his life with his wife, Debbie. Years as a pastor have drained him of his desire to do church work. The only path he sees before him is going back into law. Taking a tip from a law school friend, he moves to Mississippi. Much to his chagrin, clients have not found their way to his office and he is beginning to question if he made the right decision in moving to Mississippi.
Ashley, not seeing much hope, feels that her life is about to end, if not physically, then by spending the rest of it behind bars. Finding herself in the office of Attorney, Monroe T. Lovett, she’s not even sure if he can help her. To do so, she must fight through a lifetime of hurt, face her own painful past, and doing that means learning to trust Monroe.
For Monroe, he is just glad to see his first a client walk through the door when he sees Ashley. After Ashley reveals to him her predicament, he knows that he has his hands full. In need of a case just to get his name out, and for the future of his law practice, Lovett takes the case. However, he gets more than a just a client. Monroe finds himself right in the middle of a family secret that even Ashley does not know about. No one in Lane County knows the truth the Butlers are hiding. And the family patriarch will sacrifice whomever he must to keep his secret.
Monroe isn't sure who is on his side and who is against him. As a stranger, faces an uphill battle. He must earn Ashley’s trust, while at the same time learning to trust the offering of a stranger’s help, Ed Hermann. At the same time, he encounters the local District Attorney who is interested in only one thing—winning the case.
After stumbling upon the Butler family secret, Monroe works to unravel the mystery as to the true identity and motive of Julie’s murderer. While uncovering this truth and seeking justice for Ashley, Monroe endures his own personal threats and pain.
REVIEW: Written in a similar vein as Randy Singer, this legal thriller keeps you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. Butler's Justice has it all twists, turns, surprises, romance and intrigue. It's a story of corruption but also of truth and faith. The characters were well-developed and the story line and setting fit quite well with the small southern town image. I would have given this a 5 but for lack of editing and many typos and grammatical errors felt I had to score it a 4. Would like to read more stories starring Monroe Lovett.
FAVORITE QUOTES: "You've never said anything about God or Jesus. Are you, for lack of a better term, religious?" "Religious? No. Jesus? It's simple. He leads...I follow"
"I don't know if you remember, Mr. Lovett, but you told me to trust God......Well, anyway, I decided to do that. I put my trust in God. If it wasn't for Jesus, well...I don't know--He gave me the strength to trust you."
July 13, 2014
Monroe Lovett decided to move to a small town in Mississippi where he was going to practice law. At first things are not looking so good and he questions if he made the right choice. Then one morning a young girl walks into his office and asks for his help. She informs Lovett that she is going to get arrested for killing her husbands girlfriend.
With nothing to lose Lovett takes her case, little did he know what this case would involve. Lovett is about to take on the most powerful family in the town, the Butler family. They do not take kindly to Lovett's digging into their affairs and they try everything to put a stop to his case. Lovett does not back down and all that he wants to do is prove that his client is innocent.
Without spoiling the story for everybody I can say it's a great read. Once you start reading this book you will not want to put it down.
I would also just like to say thank you to Perry and Goodreads for a signed copy of this book.
With nothing to lose Lovett takes her case, little did he know what this case would involve. Lovett is about to take on the most powerful family in the town, the Butler family. They do not take kindly to Lovett's digging into their affairs and they try everything to put a stop to his case. Lovett does not back down and all that he wants to do is prove that his client is innocent.
Without spoiling the story for everybody I can say it's a great read. Once you start reading this book you will not want to put it down.
I would also just like to say thank you to Perry and Goodreads for a signed copy of this book.
April 17, 2016
This book was about as entertaining as having a Jehovah's Witness camped out on your doorstep. Its characters were wooden and uninteresting while its plot was as much absurd as it was a frightening example of the apparently tilted Christian mind of its developer. Added to all of this a thoroughly unskilled and clumsy technique which is desperately in need of an editor.
This was a book that should never have been written, much less published, and it made me nostalgic for the good old days when publishing houses were able to protect readers from this kind of rubbish. There is a dark side to self-publication and this is it.
This was a book that should never have been written, much less published, and it made me nostalgic for the good old days when publishing houses were able to protect readers from this kind of rubbish. There is a dark side to self-publication and this is it.
July 8, 2014
This book had a great story line. Full of great drama but very poorly written. One girl is being accused of murder by an entire small town. She's up against a corrupt Sheriff's Dept, a powerful father-in-law, missing witnesses, and even an overnight arrest on murder charges.
June 27, 2014
Great
this is,all about the way some people can have ill legal hold on a town and it's criminal defense system.
this is,all about the way some people can have ill legal hold on a town and it's criminal defense system.
May 6, 2015
Butler's justice
Good read well written lot of twists and turns. keeps you wondering who the bad guys are until the end.
Good read well written lot of twists and turns. keeps you wondering who the bad guys are until the end.
November 16, 2015
Loved it
It kept me interested. I love anything about christian lawyers was a good read for me. I will get his need book
It kept me interested. I love anything about christian lawyers was a good read for me. I will get his need book
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