JAMES H. BARNHILL
Dirt Road to Death
ABOUT JAMES BARNHILL
James H. Barnhill is a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, a former arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association, a former director and general counsel for Betatherm Automotive Sensors, Limited (Ireland), and former chairman of the board for a sixty million dollar company. He has been a teacher or mock trial coach at the law school, college, and high school levels. He has over forty-five years' experience in business litigation and commercial bankruptcy.
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DIRT ROAD TO DEATH
June 2018
© 2018 by James H. Barnhill
International entrepreneur Pat Culliney flew high as the wealthy owner of Universe Electronics. Then, teen lovers found Pat drowned in his Jaguar coupe, submerged in a lake at the end of a secluded dirt road in the woods. The medical examiner said suicide, but a receipt for dry ice let attorney Shawn O'Donovan realize that Pat was murdered.
Just after impoverished Torch Walsh quit his dead-end job to manage a company Pat left him, Pat's unscrupulous successor began a vicious attempt to steal Torch's business using a lawsuit, perjury, false arrest of Torch's mother, extortion, and murder. Shawn fights overwhelming odds to protect Torch and his mother, threatened at every turn.
Themes of inequality, corruption, and Shawn’s struggle with alcohol twist into a fast-paced who-and-how-done-it, concluding at the menacing end of the Dirt Road to Death.
Dirt Road to Death is available in paperback and on Kindle.
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A strikingly compelling legal drama that I could not put down. In his debut novel, James H. Barnhill creates a crime thriller with a huge heart. You'll love every step of the way down the Dirt Road to Death!
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The imaginative details and in-depth knowledge of the courts and legal system is instructive and fascinating. The whole story hangs together and helps me to hold the characters and places in mind throughout the book while maintaining the mystery for the surprising ending. A great read for anyone who appreciates a creative mystery.
