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Tenkill
2023
First Published
4.02
Average Rating
320
Number of Pages

A lawyer on the run from her own firm and a trail of corruption that has shaped generations In TENKILL, Greta Vinet Seville, E-Discovery Counsel and Deputy General Counsel at the international law firm of Coarse & Cotton, finds herself on the run from her own firm. Using a thin argument that she is authorized to investigate suspected corruption and possible high crimes amongst the named partners, Greta absconds with firm data to conduct her investigation—holing up at a former client’s off-the grid farm to figure out her next move—that is until the firm tracks her down, claiming to have only her safety in mind, forcing her to flee again, this time enlisting a diverse cast of characters to help her comb through the mountains of data she’s taken from the firm. This off-the-books, rag-tag legal team includes a genius litigation technology professional, a possibly psychopathic (but effective) summer associate, an AP investigative reporter, a classical painting art restorer, Greta’s philosophy professor brother, and Greta’s love interest, a compliance attorney at Tenkill. Romance, action, technology law, corruption are all explored, and married with Greta’s personal backstory about a renegade, vigilante aunt who’s been on the run for decades and fighting her own politically-charged battles. They create a make-shift war room in a historic Salem, Massachusetts home, and their pursuit of more evidence leads them in action-packed chases around Boston…and a massive hospital—Tenkill—that is at the center of the corruption. But this investigation is like no other Greta has ever conducted, as people who have millions to lose and careers to ruin have and will kill to keep what she seeks to uncover secret. A surrealist thriller for fans of early John Grisham, with an all-female-led cast, and a secret at the end that will shake you to your core.

Avg Rating
4.02
Number of Ratings
97
5 STARS
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4 STARS
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3 STARS
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2 STARS
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Author

Shannon Kirk
Shannon Kirk
Author · 7 books

My top 14 books of all time are as follows, in the following order—as in, if I was allowed only 14 books to bring to a deserted island where I was marooned for the rest of my life, these are what I would pack:

  1. Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabo)
  2. Orphan Master's Son (Adam Johnson)
  3. The Mummy Market (Nancy Brelis), tragically out of print, which makes ZERO sense because it's a classic
  4. The Incarnations (Susan Barker) AMAZING
  5. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
  6. Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)
  7. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
  8. Swamplandia, and every single word ever written by: (Karen Russell)
  9. Everything is Illuminated (Jonathan Safran Foer)
  10. The Keep, Jennifer Egan
  11. The Sea (John Banville)
  12. Someone Else's Love Story, Joshilyn Jackson.
  13. Kiss the Girls (Patterson)
  14. The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah Further to my literary likes, I consider Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Charles Dickens to be actual, literal geniuses; if we had brain scans of their brains, we wouldn't understand what we're seeing. I prefer more prose than dialogue; prefer poetry over intricate plot, but love if I can have both (hence, Love in the Time of Cholera being #1 and Orphan Master's Son #2). But I'm never really consistent with this anyway. If I'm pulled to keep reading the book, I'll keep reading the book. My reviews are all and will only ever be of books I love. I do not finish books I don't like, so it's not fair for me to review them.
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