"Discretion"

Discretion: A Novel (Allison Leotta)

A good, almost great legal thriller. Leotta's a former prosecutor, and it shows - all of the legal aspects of the book are plausible, with none of, say, Law & Order's occasional dips into "Well, the script says I'm going to throw this evidence out so the show is an hour long". The author is also able to create a cast of surprisingly nuanced characters; it's nice to see a book where everyone is a real person and not a cartoon good guy or bad guy.
So why it is it good and not quite great? I guess my big complaint is that I was able to figure out who the secondary villain was almost right away, and although I was fooled on who the primary villain is, I would point out that this is because we're not really given any clues to work with. This aside, if you're looking for a thriller this is easy to recommend, and because I wanted to see what happened, I polished off all 320+ pages of in two days.

Grade: B