THE LAST BILLABLE HOUR

Welcome to the Silicon Valley law firm of Tweedmore &, Slyde, where multimillion-dollar deals are the order of the day, ambition runs high, and stabbing a colleague in the back could be taken all too literally. T&,S is a hot firm making a bid to be a major national player when Leo Slyde&mdash,the company&rsquo,s chief rainmaker, its king of the &ldquo,billable hour&rdquo,&mdash,is found stabbed to death in his corner office. It falls to T&,S&rsquo,s brightest, most unjustifiably insecure young associate Howard Rickover to conduct a risky &ldquo,inside job&rdquo, for homicide detective Sarah Nelson. But can Howard flush out a wily murderer among lawyers who do not make it their practice to be caught unprepared&mdash,and still keep up with an associate&rsquo,s impossible workload?_,