HOUSE WITNESS: A Joe DeMarco Thriller

From Lawson's acclaimed series we meet political fixer Joe DeMarco in New York for behind-the-scenes work on a high stakes murder case as five witnesses, one by one, start to drop out. The likeable protagonist is on the trail of a different kind of fixer, one whose job it is to influence and sometimes disappear witnesses in seemingly airtight criminal cases. Minority Leader of the House and DeMarco's long-time employer John Mahoney has kept more than one secret from his wife over the years, but none so explosive as this - he has a son, and that son has been shot dead in a Manhattan bar. Mahoney immediately dispatches DeMarco to New York to assist prosecutor Justine Porter, but with five bystanders willing to testify against the killer, rich-boy Toby Rosenthal, the case seems like a slam-dunk, that is until Porter begins to suspect that someone is interfering with those witnesses and may be connected to a pattern of cases across the country. With the help of Porter's young and brainy intern, and travelling from New York to Las Vegas, Minneapolis, Phoenix and beyond, DeMarco becomes determined to follow the question through to its violent resolution. 353pp.