Dear Reader…
My book, One Night In Amboise, starts in France
with two overseas campus students. They are together one night and the next
morning, she says it was rape and he says it wasn’t. From this start, I trace
the lives of the two individuals as they cope with that one night. For the
woman, it is a struggle and for the man it is constant questioning of what
happened. The story is a legal mystery, so that is another layer of intrigue.
I hope that you can follow along with these two lives and
try to see this initial event from both sides and imagine how it must feel for
each of them to come to grips with it over time. .
We all have secrets, so it is not hard to imagine what it
must be like to want to keep a secret and that is what the two individuals do
in this story.
Love, Ken Malovos
About the Author
Ken Malovos has been practicing law in Sacramento
for over forty years. He spent twelve years with the Public Defender’s Office
and twenty-five years as a business litigator. He now serves full-time as a
mediator and arbitrator. Ken has written two previous Mike Zorich novels and
both have been recognized by Chanticleer Book Reviews. Contempt of Court was a
First Place Category winner in the legal genre of the Mystery and Mayhem
competition in 2014. Fatal Reunion was a finalist in the
Thriller and Suspense competition in 2016. Ken and his wife live in Sacramento.
His latest book is the legal mystery, ONE
NIGHT IN AMBOISE.
Visit his website at www.malovoslaw.com.
About the Book:
JIM HANSEN AND CORINNE LARSON are overseas college students
at Amboise, France.
After meeting at a local bar they leave and encounter a drunk. JIM hits him and
the man may be dead. At the manor house where they live, they kiss and make
love. The next day she accuses him of rape but
After they return to California,
CORINNE struggles with the whole incident, wondering if she was at fault. She
talks to her sisters and then seeks professional help after turning to
alcohol. JIM goes to law school and
becomes a deputy district attorney, always wondering if the allegation of rape
will surface and whether he did the right thing. He marries another overseas
student from Amboise.
ALICIA OBREGON contacts JIM and asks him to dismiss the
criminal case against her husband. She informs JIM that she knows all about Amboise
and threatens to expose him. He throws the case, thereby allowing a guilty person
to go free. Over time he pays her money.
JIM is appointed a judge and ALICIA continues to blackmail
him. CORINNE’s husband comes to Sacramento
and confronts JIM in his chambers. JIM says he is sorry about the whole thing.
JIM goes to a rehabilitation facility but in a few weeks he leaves, feeling he
has resolved all of his concerns.
ALICIA is found dead. ALICIA’s husband is charged with her
murder but he implicates JIM because he knows all about the blackmailing
scheme. JIM then is arrested and must stand trial for the murder of ALICIA. The
prosecutor focuses on JIM’s motive. JIM asks noted trial lawyer MIKE ZORICH to
represent him. JIM turns down a plea
bargain and a sensational jury trial follows. JIM is not truthful with his
wife, his attorney or the jury. CORINNE’s husband testifies. The jury cannot
reach a decision and JIM must live with a tarnished reputation amidst unsettled
questions whether he killed ALICIA and raped CORINNE.
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