Tampa has an annual tradition known as the Gasparilla Pirate Festival, which is usually the highlight of the year for residents. Secret Justice: The third novel is one of the most popular novels in the Justice series of novels. What follows is a rollercoaster of a narrative full of suspense, humor, and great characters that shows why Diane Capri is one of the best mystery writers around. Willa does not know if Carly needs to be saved from a murderous conspiracy or if her beloved sister is already dead. Could she have information about the killer that would put her in danger? Before Willa can get answers to her questions, her sister goes missing. It seems that her sister Carly Austin had been too close to the murder victim. When a celebrity plastic surgeon turns up dead – his decomposed body found floating in Tampa Bay, Carson’s little sister is the prime suspect. The first novel in the series, Due Justice introduces Federal Judge Willa Carson, who is currently embroiled in a high stakes game that threatens to tear her family apart. The series begins with Carson as a Federal Judge who has to face up to a world full of deceit and blackmail, in which she has to employ her bullet proof and free-spirited nature if she is to survive. I am not tempted to read anymore of Ms Capri's own work.Judge Willa Carson is a tenacious and even stubborn woman, who believes that attractive and successful women are made not born. Nothing conclusive is gained and, I find it doubtful that, that lack of credibility would have been acceptable in a real world scenario! But, what do I know? In the end, the concept of the story was a good one, I just feel that it could have been told in a more engaging, enjoyable, plausible way. If this had been a physical book, I feel sure that I would have skipped past a few pages, to get back into the meat of the story, because several parts of the tale just seemed incredulous or unnecessary! In this day & age of mobile technology (2000), why carry around a portable recorder if you do not prepare yourself to use it to confirm your discoveries? Finally, the whole tale is resolved, unsatisfactorily, in the epilogue.
Not at all worthy of the character of a judge or a lawyer. She makes silly mistakes and shows poor judgment. Given that her professional aptitude should enable her to ask searching, pressing and probing questions, she does a really poor job of it. The main character is a judge, a former lawyer, who takes on an independent, private investigation to clear her husbands' name of a crime that she's convinced he didn't commit. However, I was disappointed to find that, in this instance, she can't really tell a tale. I had high hopes for this novel, having read Diane Capri's take on the season for Lee Child's character, Jack Reacher.
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