Service Dress Blues

Lawyer Rep Pennyworth has loyally followed his wife Melissa to Milwaukee in her quest for a faculty position in English Literature at UWM. Among his clients are Ole and Lena Lindstrom, a pair of aging political activists. On the night before the 2008 Army-Navy Game, a midshipman is found naked and barely alive in the lobby of a cheap motel near the Naval Academy in Annapolis. His closest relatives are Ole and Lena. Then Ole is murdered, and Lena becomes an instant suspect. Rep and Melissa must prove that more than coincidence ties the mid-shipman's mugging in Annapolis to Ole Lindstrom's murder in Milwaukee. Michael Bowen is a trial lawyer living in Fox Point, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee. He is the author of sixteen published novels, including fourteen mysteries, as well as the entry on the American Legal System in the Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing.