| An author that sets out to write a trilogy, | | | | ravages of Alzheimer's. This could be the |
| is to say the least ambitious, to maintain | | | | single most important breakthrough in medical |
| key characters over three books requires some | | | | science in many years. Research takes money |
| very intricate plot manipulations. Mary | | | | though, and Dr. Hawke contends that the money |
| Martin has succeeded in grand style. A Trial | | | | Harry Jenkins seeks was legally raised, and |
| Of One wraps up The Osgoode Trilogy. In book | | | | was specifically for research into |
| one we meet our intrepid, yet unlikely hero | | | | Alzheimer's. Harry Jenkins must also deal |
| Harry Jenkins, a very average lawyer, | | | | with the distraught widow of his dead |
| practicing in a very small and very | | | | partner. Dorothy Crawford is convinced that |
| nondescript law firm. When his partner dies | | | | her husband Richard was poisoned, and the |
| suddenly he finds himself captain of the | | | | fatal Stroke, was merely the result. And the |
| ship, but where is the ship headed? It is now | | | | murderer is someone just know by the initial |
| his alone to make work. | | | | 'Q.' |
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| Book two Final Paradox continues Harry's | | | | A Trial Of One is a cracking read, to call it |
| saga, he discovers that a huge fraud was | | | | a page turner does not do it justice. What I |
| perpetrated years before, millions of dollars | | | | really liked was that even through it is part |
| disappeared in a medical research scam, and | | | | of a trilogy it stands on its own. You do not |
| his elderly client Norma Dinnick exhibiting | | | | need to have read the previous books to |
| the tell tale signs of dementia confuses | | | | understand the plot, or the characters |
| Harry. Is she victim of the fraud, or a | | | | involved. The characters are well |
| partner to the crime? | | | | developed,and rich in texture. |
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| In A Trial Of One these mysteries, and there | | | | The story moves from Toronto, to Vienna, to |
| are several interwoven and cleverly executed | | | | London, each step becomes more dangerous for |
| plot twists, all gradually come together. Our | | | | Harry. |
| hero Harry finds himself once again caught up | | | | |
| in the needs of his clients. Norma Dinnick | | | | This is an interesting book and operates on |
| has been incarcerated in a mental institution | | | | several different levels. This is not your |
| having been found not guilty by way of | | | | standard action/adventure by any stretch of |
| insanity due to the onset of Alzheimer's for | | | | the imagination. One of the subplots involves |
| murder. In her rare trips into lucidity she | | | | sex, well actually that is not quite true, it |
| talks of a huge fortune that rightly belongs | | | | involves sexuality, and it certainly is |
| to her. Harry acting as not only her lawyer, | | | | thought provoking. |
| but also legal guardian feels obliged to | | | | |
| investigate. The fortune itself seems real, | | | | Maybe a trilogy is the ideal number of books |
| but is it the ill gotten gains from a fraud, | | | | to work a character, and then move on. Even |
| or money that was justly earned? A shell | | | | famous best selling authors have fallen into |
| company called Elixacorp raised over $30 | | | | the trap of wearing a character out, one |
| million dollars, but where is the money now? | | | | example is author Tom Clancy who worked his |
| | | | character Jack Ryan until he became a joke. |
| Although all of the original protagonists in | | | | Mary Martin has not done that, in fact I am |
| the fraud scheme are dead, there is one man | | | | sure that she could use him a couple more |
| who still has a driving interest in the loot, | | | | times. Certainly if I was her, I would be |
| Dr. Robert Hawke. Is he medical genius, or | | | | giving serious thought to it. |
| maniacal madman? That is the question that we | | | | |
| are faced with. It does not take Harry long | | | | This is a great book, and you can get your |
| to realize that Dr. Hawke is a dangerous | | | | own copy from Amazon, there is also an |
| adversary. Dr. Hawke is researching a new | | | | interesting web page, The Osgoode Trilogy, |
| drug that can treat, and even reverse the | | | | supporting the trilogy. |