The Last Billable Hour

T&S is a hot firm making a bid to be a major national player when Leo Slyde—the company's chief rainmaker, its king of the “billable hour”—is found stabbed to death in his corner office. It falls to T&S's 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 associate's impossible workload?