Veritas

In Bitter Truth (previously published Veritas), William Lashner's hero, Victor Carl (last seen in Hostile Witness), is a Philadelphia lawyer who loves money as much as justice and has contacts with people of the mob persuasion. Victor's ancestors include Elmore Leonard and John Grisham. What makes him such an engaging companion is how he manages to turn all his character flaws into assets, as he looks into the murder of a very rich, very social woman and finds that there are all kinds of secret truths buried on the grounds of an old family mansion called Veritas.