

The Color of Law aka The Colour of Law
Best-seller lists:
- No. 6, UK
- Amazon’s Top 10 Mystery & Thriller List, 2005
- Finalist, 2005 Thriller Award for Best First Novel
- Top 10 of 2006, CrimeSquad.com (UK)
Reviews:
“First novelist Gimenez draws on his experience as an attorney in this taut legal thriller that echoes To Kill a Mockingbird. With fast-paced and edgy prose, dramatic tête-à-têtes between attorneys, and an explosive courtroom conclusion, Gimenez effectively weaves elements of race, class, and justice into a story of a lawyer who rediscovers the difference between doing good and doing well.”
Library Journal (starred review)
“The Color of Law is an unbeatable legal thriller with a lot of heart.”
Texas Monthly
THE COLOUR OF LAW “is a compulsive read that owes its heart, soul and passion to Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’. In this fast-paced debut, Gimenez sinks his teeth into the manicured and corrupt world of lawyered, high-society Dallas in all its ostentatious glory: golf club memberships, fancy houses, fast cars, sleek wives and the all-encompassing reach of cold, hard power. In A. Scott Fenney—a young, rich and ruthless corporate lawyer at one of Dallas’s most prestigious firms who glibly practises ‘aggressive and creative’ law for his high-paying clients—will the world find a hero or a patsy? Only a case involving a poor, black, drug-addicted prostitute and a dead white senator’s son will tell. Warning: you can lose an entire lazy Sunday to this one.
Time Out London