The Last Billable Hour: A Novel

The Last Billable Hour: A Novel by Wolfe, Susan. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780312025663.

* Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Mystery "Susan Wolfe is at her best depicting--and spoofing--the glitzy law firm scene. A lawyer herself, she serves her damages with skill and obvious glee." --The New York Times Book Review "A world of captivating corruption...with a delicate blend of malice, suspense and sharp psychology, Wolfe winds up her story with a scene that explodes a number of myths." --San Francisco Chronicle Welcome to the Silicon Valley law firm of Tweedmore & Slyde, where multimillion-dollar deals are the order of the day, ambition runs high, and stabbing a colleague in the back could be taken all too literally. T&S is a hot firm making a bid to be a major national player when Leo Slyde--the companys chief rainmaker, its king of the "billable hour"--is found stabbed to death in his corner office. It falls to T&Ss brightest, most unjustifiably insecure young associate Howard Rickover to conduct a risky "inside job" for homicide detective Sarah Nelson. But can Howard flush out a wily murderer among lawyers who do not make it their practice to be caught unprepared--and still keep up with an associates impossible workload?