{"id":6051,"date":"2025-12-27T06:13:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T06:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=6051"},"modified":"2025-12-27T06:20:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T06:20:45","slug":"the-confession-by-sheldon-siegel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/the-confession-by-sheldon-siegel\/","title":{"rendered":"<B>The Confession<\/B> by Sheldon Siegel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/48845764-the-confession\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1574024311l\/48845764._SX98_.jpg\" alt=\"The Confession (Mike Daley\/Rosie Fernandez #5)\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/48845764-the-confession\">The Confession<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/69191.Sheldon_Siegel\">Sheldon Siegel<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/8179322245\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mike Daley is a lawyer, a graduate of Boalt Hall of Law, Berkeley&#8217;s premiere law school, and, coincidentally, my alma mater, so he has a leg up in my book. He&#8217;s representing Ramon, a priest, accused of murder. The victim, a girlfriend of his from his pre-priesthood days, was pregnant and Ramon may be the father. Okay, that&#8217;s an interesting twist. The Archdiocese wants to take over the case in order to protect its interests, but Ramon wants Mike and his ex-wife Rosie, to represent <i>his<\/i> best interests. But Ramon can&#8217;t directly defy the Archdiocese. So Mike is fighting the D.A. and his own co-counsel. I like the complications this introduces. The author handles all the legal stuff in a clever, entertaining way while still being quite accurate.<\/p>\n<p>But the real appeal is the clever dialogue. There&#8217;s a lot of it, but the author employs a shtick where interleaved between the lines of dialogue are asides showing what Mike is really thinking. It works well. Everybody, including Mike, is lying to everyone else but Mike&#8217;s asides keep us on the right track. The book has its flaws. Daley uses his brother as a P.I. who can magically find anything, tail everyone, tap any phone, get private police and other records, etc., largely through illegal methods. As an FBI agent for 26 years I&#8217;m well aware of what a P.I. can reasonably be expected to achieve and this ain&#8217;t it. So suspend your disbelief. Of course every time Mike makes some progress, one more thing goes wrong, implicating his client. His fingerprints are on the murder weapon; they&#8217;re on the neck of the strangled victim; a star defense witness gets murdered, etc. Despite a few cliches, it was a fun read. 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