Extraordinary! What an incredible "Collaborative Novel of Suspense" by 11 beloved and best-selling notable authors. I read the description of the novel and was totally intrigued. The book is as amazing as I anticipated and in fact it surpassed any and all expectations! I loved it!!William Bernhardt conceptualized the creation of a mystery written by multiple authors as he invited 10 of his author colleagues to join the fun! It is also very special to note that the project collaboration was simultaneously devised as a fundraiser and supports a very deserving cause as all author royalties are donated to The Nature Conservancy.I was so excited to learn that 5 of my favorite authors contributed to this adventurous writing including William Bernhardt, John Lescroart, Phillip Margolin, Brad Meltzer, and Lisa Scottoline. It was also a wonderful introduction to the 6 authors that I now must investigate their independent writing as I so enjoyed their gifts of collaboration and generosity to this project including Leslie Glass, Gini Hartzmark, John Katzenbach, Bonnie MacDougal, Michael Palmer, and Laurence Shames.I could keep the thesaurus open all night in an effort to try to capture just a snippet of the delight in reading this novel. It's a perfect blend of page-turning, riveting, exciting, unique, suspenseful scenes of courtroom drama, murder and mayhem, and investigative reporting, with humorous lines all mixed into one extraordinary and outstanding novel. Even if you never read the author's Afterword - Don't miss this one! It shares more details of how the novel came from creation to fruition. My only disappointment is that the web site that was initially created for this title to share which author wrote each chapter no longer seems to be available.
