When much-despised Marbury Marfan senior partner Simon Rafer turns up in a cold pool of blood with an ornate dagger in his back, it comes as a surprise to no oneβleast of all to Robert Tarza, who is first on the scene. A long-time partner at Marbury, Tarza knows dozens of attorneys in the firm who had good motive to want Rafer in the ground. But despite his own decades of conflict with Raferβand a recent heated quarrel over a rare ancient coin Simon bought from himβRobert never imagined that homicide Detective Spritz would zero in on him as prime suspect.
As Spritzβs case builds with uncanny speed, Robert quickly falls from his respected position at Marbury to a criminal being dragged through the tabloids. Along with his kick-butt defense attorney, Jenna James, he is forced to play detective in a race to find the real killerβand uncovers a web of fraud amongst his closest colleagues in the process. In the end, only Jennaβs untested trial skills can keep him out of prison.
Review
"With plenty of twists and turns, Death on a High Floor is an excellent read that shouldn't be overlooked." βJohn Taylor, Midwest Book Reviews
"Death on a High Floor is any indication of author Rosenberg's future efforts, Scott Turow and John Grisham should be prepared to admit one more to their club." βLori Hedgpeth, Psychotic State Book Reviews
About the Author
Charles "Chuck" Rosenberg has been the credited legal script consultant to three prime-time television shows: L.A. Law , The Practice , and Boston Legal , as well as The Paper Chase (Showtime). During the O .J. Simpson criminal trial, he was one of two on-air legal analysts for E! Entertainment Television's live coverage of the trial. He also provided commentary for E!'s coverage of the Simpson civil trial. He is the author of the book The Trial of O.J. Simpson: How to Watch the Trial and Understand What's Really Going On (Publishing Partners 1994) and is a contributing author to the book Lawyers in Your Living Room! Law on Television (ABA Publishing 2009).
He has taught extensively as an adjunct law professor, including at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, the Loyola Law School International LLM Program in Bologna, Italy, the UCLA School of Law, the Pepperdine School of Law, and the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA.
A graduate of the Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, Chuck currently practices in the Los Angeles area. He has been a partner in several law firms, including a large international firm. Currently, he is a partner in a three-lawyer firm. Chuck and his wife have lived in Los Angeles since the early 1970s. He is at work on a second novel.