A. J. Hawke — Attorney at Law
The young attorney defends a confessed killer in a seemingly unwinnable case, exposing questionable police interrogation tactics.
Donald E. McInnis
The young man confessed; case closed. Or is it?
Did David Caine actually confess? Did he truly rape and kill his college sweetheart?
A. J. Hawke, Attorney at Law, believes otherwise, insisting the real culprit, dubbed The Sphynx, raped and killed the young woman. Worse yet, The Sphynx is still at large.
Meanwhile, the power brokers at San Diego’s City Hall and within the hospitality industry fear Hawke will needlessly tarnish the image of America’s Finest City. Can they keep him from dragging the clearly open-and-shut case into a sensational trial the news media will milk for every drop — just as the beachfront city’s economically critical tourist season begins?
This legal thriller by Donald E. McInnis will be released on February 22, 2022. Published by J&E Publications. The sequel, The Return of the Sphynx, will be published later this year.
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The Sphynx Murder Case by Donald E. McInnis is a legal thriller that infuses the intrigue of ongoing investigations and local [San Diego, California] politics with the suspense of courtroom proceedings. It draws readers in with covered-up corruption and more than one ongoing case to solve. Lawyer A. J. Hawke is clever and crafty in the courtroom [as he exposes] police interrogation tactics.
— Booklife Report
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Donald E. McInnis is a California criminal defense attorney and has served as a Deputy District Attorney, Deputy Public Defender, and Superior Court Judge Pro Tem. He is the author of She’s So Cold: The Stephanie Crowe Murder Case — A Defense Attorney’s Inside Story (true crime, juvenile law).
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