But Remember Their Names: A Cynthia Jakubek Legal Thriller

By Hillary Bell Locke

There’s one corpse too many in a Pittsburgh museum’s life-size diorama of the Battle of Lexington, 1775. The extra body is that of philanthropist and art connoisseur T. Colfax Bradshaw. But why? Maybe he knew too much about the biggest art heist in history. And what did Bradshaw’s wife Ariane know?
When their daughter Caitlin seeks legal advice, newly minted lawyer Cynthia Jakubek finds herself representing the teen. Jakubek aches to jump from Main Street to Wall Street but is stuck interning for ace Pitts-burgh attorney Luis Mendoza while she waits for her future New York employer to recover from the Great Recession. Or for her fiancé to finish his post-modern novel….
Protecting Caitlin will take Jakubek from a ghetto church in Pittsburgh to a confessional at St. Patrick’s Cathedral to the opulent Manhattan office where she hopes to trade street law for suite law. Along the way she’ll meet people who carry guns on the job and she’ll pick up a broken nose and a broken heart for her trouble. She didn’t fire the first shot at Pittsburgh’s Battle of Lexington display, but she’ll have to decide whether or not to fire the last….

• Language: English
• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Release date: Dec 31, 2011
• ISBN: 9781615953240

Hillary Bell Locke

Hillary Bell Locke graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, worked for a prominent New York law firm, and now practices law in a city far from New York  but not under that name.

Reviews for But Remember Their Names

[eadieb-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This was an excellent debut of a legal thriller by Hillary Bell Locke and I enjoyed it very much. The author is a graduate of Harvard Law School and one of the points she makes with this novel is "you go to law school to learn law but not justice." The protagonist learns this by defending her client who by the end she knows is guilty but is put in a position that if she decides to prosecute her client, it would break the client/lawyer relationship. It was a complex plot with interesting characters that kept the pages turning. The title comes from a quote by Robert F. Kennedy: "Forgive your enemies but remember their names." I will definitely read more by this talented author and I would highly recommend this book to those who love legal thrillers.

[lindapanzo · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I rarely read legal thrillers but I thoroughly enjoyed this debut mystery featuring attorney Cynthia (Jake) Jakubek, who is currently working at a small law firm in Pittsburgh while she waits for her high-powered, large firm job in New York City to start. This book has an interesting cast of characters and a plot full of twists and turns.A dead body is found in a Revolutionary War diorama at an American History museum in Pittsburgh and Jake's firm is representing the victim's daughter. The infamous Gardner art heist figures into this terrific mystery.The title is based on a quotation by Robert Kennedy: Forgive your enemies but remember their names.I'm really looking forward to reading more books from this author. Highly recommended!!