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	Incriminating Evidence Author: Sheldon Siegel Published: August 1, 2001 by Bantam Series Name: Mike Daley Mysteries Category: Mystery Main Character: Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez With his terrific first novel, Special Circumstances, Sheldon Siegel delivered legal fiction so exciting, it drew comparisons with the very top tier of courtroom thrillers. Now he has a new challenge for defense attorney Mike Daley--ex-priest, ex-husband, ex-public defender--and it's a high-profile zinger: a case he can't win for a client he can't stand. It starts with a phone call Mike Daley never expected to get, from District Attorney Prentice Marshall Gates III, San Francisco's chief law enforcement officer and front-runner candidate for California attorney general. Friends they're not, but Gates needs Daley now--badly. He's just been arrested. A couple of hours earlier, he woke up in his hotel room and found the dead body of a young male prostitute in his bed. There's nothing in the mounting evidence to convince Daley and his partner--and ex-wife--Rosie Fernandez, of Gates's innocence. But even if he's lying, it's their job to defend him. Sure enough, the deeper Mike and Rosie dig, the seamier their findings. They chase down leads that take them from the depths of the Mission District, where drugs and bodies are always for sale, to the gated mansions of Pacific Heights, frantically trying to piece together the shocking truth of what actually happened, even as the trial itself is already under way.