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Sleepless Nights: The Drew Smith Series
Sleepless Nights: The Drew Smith Series
Sleepless Nights: The Drew Smith Series
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Sleepless Nights: The Drew Smith Series

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Sleepless Nights abounds with despicable and lovable characters.
Trial attorney Drew Smith a solo practitioner takes on shady clients solving cases fraught with danger and romantic intrigue. Through Sleepless Nights the urban legal wizard while frolicking with an exotic dancer succumbs to a midlife crisis. Haunted by foreshadowing nightmares an awakening reveals an empty life but Smith finds solace with therapist Zöe Settles.
In an already complicated life Smith is pressed into service when a vicious robbery leaves three dead and the city enraged. Drew Smith and his devoted sidekick Julio Mejia work to free his young client on the trail of a crazed gunman responsible for a growing body count. In the end, the gunman and the dancer combine forces to bring Smith down.
When death comes knocking Drew Smith faces the fight of his life.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 10, 2012
ISBN9780983165613
Sleepless Nights: The Drew Smith Series
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Norwood Holland

Norwood Holland is a freelance writer, lawyer. He received his law degree from Howard University School of Law and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in English at Fisk University where he studied under the renowned Harlem Renaissance author Arna Bontemps. A Washingtonian he favors D.C.'s local color in his fiction and currently writes the blog editorialindependence.com devoted to diversity issues and labor law. To contact the author visit his website norwoodholland.com.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Drew Smith has it all. By day, he's a well-known Washington D.C. lawyer with a big house, a nice car, and an action-packed lifestyle. By night, his interest in 'exotic dancers' often leads to many club visits and passionate bedroom experiences.Unfortunately, danger - internal or external - especially seeks out those who have it all.Everything officially hits the fan when Farragut, a popular club, is robbed and three workers are mercilessly killed. First Drew's main concern is representing Theo, the owner, in an effort to prove that Theo was not behind the robbery and murders. Then, as more about the robbery is revealed, he finds himself forced to represent Gee - a studious college student terrified to share his involvement in the Farragut case. Not only that, but Gee is Nina's son, and Nina happens to be the one woman that broke Drew's heart many years ago. Though Drew gets along perfectly well with Gee and respects the successful man Gee is growing into, representing him still leaves a bad taste.Speaking of women and broken hearts, Drew's problems go way beyond professional matters. His obsession with exotic dancers leads him to Angel. At first, he's captivated by her beauty and sexual skills. When he breaks up with her after realizing that he could never truly love Angel and he's better off not messing around with women like her, she doesn't take the news well at all. Getting rid of Angel is almost as complicating as finding answers for the Farragut case. To make matters worse, he's having a hard time getting over Nina and he's developing feelings for his psychiatrist.Initially, I wasn't certain how I felt about Sleepless Nights. The story started in Gee's POV, so I wasn't sure if the book was about Drew or Gee. The whole highschool-nerd-becomes-sexy-and-finally-gets-the-popular-cheerleader made me roll my eyes. I read a lot of books and watch a lot of movies. This is a romance scenario that happens very often. However, author Norwood Holland handles their romance very well by making Gee and Marie's growing love strong and realistic. The story is well-written and well-researched.If you love murder mysteries, detective stories, and hardboiled fiction with a touch of romance, Sleepless Nights is definitely for you.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Wide Awake “Sleepless Nights” is real life attorney Norwood Holland’s debut. As an attorney, Holland obviously knows the technical details of the job and has a nice way of incorporating that into this tale without having readers asking for a recess. Through its pages, he brings life to Drew Smith, a well known, respected and sought after D.C. attorney. A robbery gone wrong results in three lives lost. Drew is brought in to defend a former client who happens to be the number one suspect. What should be an easy case is quickly complicated with additional suspects, a cop with a grudge, more lives lost and a secret. Holland also gives readers a glimpse into a dark past for Drew, one which keeps making cameos in his present through nightmares. “Sleepless Nights” is a promising debut. It was well written and smartly executed. Holland gives just enough to intrigue and maintain readers while holding back some to pique interest in continuing on with the series. I’ve been looking, searching high and low. I had my flashlight out during the day. I’ve been trying my best to find another writer of AA legal thrillers, besides Pamela Samuels Young. I think I found him. His name is Norwood Holland. Reviewed by: Toni

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