While Justice Sleeps

Knives Out meets The Pelican Brief in this page-turning political thriller. When Supreme Court Justice Howard Winn falls into a coma, his law clerk Avery Keene is stunned to learn he named her as the legal guardian tasked with handling his affairs. His angry family, fearful that she now may wield the Judge’s decisive swing vote, swiftly moves to strip her of her power. But Avery is determined to do her duty—and soon discovers a secret message from the Judge urging her to continue the dangerous secret investigation he began before falling ill. Relying on her eidetic memory and strong chess game to decode the Judge’s clues, Avery races to stay one step ahead of her pursuers and get to the bottom of a global conspiracy before it’s too late. A puzzle-like, propulsive read.