“Plummet” by Michael Zarocostas – The Crooked Sword of Justice

While justice may be something that shouldn't be anything but factual and impartial, those who administer it are, after all, human beings, and in some cases, they are a far cry from being factual and impartial. We can see this phenomenon at its brightest in Plummet by Michael Zarocostas, a book in which we are told a whodunit story taking place in Manhattan’s most renowned law firm. 

 More precisely, it follows three lawyers: a rookie who just got out of law school, a degenerate senior who can’t resist temptations, and another senior who is a millionaire and living the dream life. Two of those lawyers have a lover in common, and soon, one of them is found murdered.

Just when it feels like whodunit mysteries have been overdone and there is nothing new left to tell, Plummet comes out of nowhere and blows me away. First off, the murder storyline itself is extremely interesting, with there being plenty of twists and turns, ones that can be predicted but not without a mastery of logic and rational thinking. 

Plummet by Michael Zarocostas (Book cover)
The story doesn’t throw a bunch of last-minute revelations and a Deus Ex Machina to conveniently wrap things up; it’s a solid, logic chain that comes to a surprising, and yet logical and possible conclusion. It’s a masterfully crafted murder mystery on the whole.

As far as the rest of the book is concerned, Michael Zarocostas sure has a very interesting and captivating sense of style. We are not only given the knowledge of the most intimate workings that happen in the backrooms of a huge law firm, but we are also entertained, as much through the main characters as the events surrounding them. This novel has an air of drama of mystery around it without being 100% serious at the same time. 

All in all, it is an entertaining novel that will keep you guessing right up until the very end of it, and once it’s done, you will wonder how all that time flew by so fast.

Michael Zarocostas (Author)

Michael Zarocostas


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Michael Zarocostas is an American lawyer and bestselling author who, so far at the moment this is being written, has published a total of two works: The Barrel Murder and Plummet, but novels.

In 2013 he had the distinction of receiving two awards: the 2013 Best Indie Book Awards Winner from The Kindle Book Review, and Best of 2013 by Suspense Magazine.



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  1. Michael ZarocostasOctober 11, 2013 at 6:05 PM

    Thank you very much for this kind review. Best, Michael

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