"Joel Goldman is the real deal. In Cold Truth, Lou Mason goes his namesake Perry one better and ought to make Kansas City a must-stop on the lawyer/thriller map." John Lescroart, bestselling author of The First Law "Wanted for good writing: Joel Goldman strikes again with Cold Truth. The Kansas City Star When a troubled young woman turns herself in for murder, Lou Mason takes the case - yet something about her story doesn't add up. To catch a killer, Lou dives into a sordid world of money, drugs and a devastating black market where the price for the truth is paid in blood. "Joel Goldman's Cold Truth offers us a fast-paced legal thriller...This one makes good beach reading." The Pilot Southern Pines, N.C. "It's a suspenseful, gritty story that keeps the reader engrossed till the very end." The Facts, Brazosport, TX If you love Michael Connelly, Lee Child and John Grisham, you'll love the first two books in the Lou Mason Thriller series When two of his partners are killed, corruption, sex and murder fill trial lawyer Lou Mason's docket as he tracks the killer. Will Lou be the next victim? Find out in Motion to Kill. Lou Mason is back in The Last Witness and this time it's personal when his surrogate father, Homicide Detective Harry Ryman, arrests his best friend, Wilson "Blues" Bluestone, Jr., for murder. Mason unearths secrets someone will do anything to keep as he closes in on a desperate killer, setting himself up as the next target.