The Law Of Second Chances

On death row, an innocent man is fighting for his life in this unmissable, gripping courtroom drama.

Sheehan handles the courtroom stuff like a pro, dragging us through cross-examinations and procedural challenges with deftly hewn dialogue.

Sheehan has written an outstanding legal debut full of rich characters. Full marks!

Sheehan's book is a powerful polemic against the American legal system and above all against the death penalty.

James Sheehan was born and raised in New York City and grew up in a four-room railroad apartment with his five brothers and sisters. He started working at the age of twelve, shining shoes at a local shoe repair shop. At fourteen, he had a newspaper route. During school, he worked at a local delicatessen, an antique store where he stripped and delivered furniture, as a construction worked during the summers, a short-order cook throughout his college years, and as a roofer's assistant while he attended graduate school in Florida. 
 
He is currently a trial attorney in Tampa, where he's practised law for many years. His experience of growing up in New York has shaped his life.

A rich man parks his expensive car in downtown New York. 
 
As he gets out of the car, he is surprised to see a young man in front of him, holding a gun. No need to panic. He's been in this situation before. It's surely about money, and therefore negotiable - isn't it? 
 
There's a sharp crack of a gun and then silence. 
 
A week later a small time crook has been arrested for murder. Two eye witnesses have put him at the scene of the crime, but did he pull the trigger? 
 
He's facing death row and if there's to be a law of second chances, he needs a good lawyer fast.

James Sheehan

Vincent Marzello

'Sheehan handles the courtroom stuff like a pro, dragging us through cross-examinations and procedural challenges with deftly hewn dialogue.'

Move over John Grisham, here's an electrifying, hard-boiled thriller and courtroom drama rolled into one.

Jack Tobin is a trial lawyer with a searing-hot reputation in Miami, far removed from his scrappy youth on the streets of New York.But when a young Florida man is railroaded into a murder conviction in the tiny Florida backwater of Bass Creek, Tobin is driven to pay back a debt to his best friend, the boy who once dubbed him 'the Mayor of Lexington Avenue'. 
 
In his efforts to get the death penalty overturned, Tobin moves back to South Florida, where he finds himself up against the small-town legal establishment, where favours are routinely traded at the expense of truth, and where police corruption has become an art form. 
 
'If you like crime novels, legal thrillers and courtroom dramas, you'll love The Mayor of Lexington Avenue, which has all three, plus some nostalgic New York City flashbacks as an added bonus. James Sheehan, a Florida trial attorney, has created Jack Tobin, a Florida trial attorney, and one of the most interesting and complex characters I've come across in a long time. This is a debut novel, but it reads like it was written by a master of the genre.' Nelson DeMille

James Sheehan

Praise for The Mayor of Lexington Avenue

'Sheehan handles the courtroom stuff like a pro, dragging us through cross-examinations and procedural challenges with deftly hewn dialogue.'

Sheehan has written an outstanding legal debut full of rich characters. Full marks!

Sheehan's book is a powerful polemic against the American legal system and above all against the death penalty.

'Sheehan handles the courtroom stuff like a pro, dragging us through cross-examinations and procedural challenges with deftly hewn dialogue.'

Sheehan has written an outstanding legal debut full of rich characters. Full marks!

Sheehan's book is a powerful polemic against the American legal system and above all against the death penalty.

'Sheehan handles the courtroom stuff like a pro, dragging us through cross-examinations and procedural challenges with deftly hewn dialogue.'

Sheehan has written an outstanding legal debut full of rich characters. Full marks!

Sheehan's book is a powerful polemic against the American legal system and above all against the death penalty.

Books by James Sheehan

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