Bootheel Man, by Morley Swingle

“Morley Swingle makes a living as chief prosecutor in Missouri’s Cape Girardeau County. As a sideline, he writes books. “Bootheel Man” is his third book and second novel, and it proves that some lawyers can actually write entertainingly. At the center of “Bootheel Man” is a Cape Girardeau woman, lawyer Allison Culbertson. She’s 27, attractive and suddenly on national television news. That’s because she’s representing an Osage Indian who broke into a Cape Girardeau museum, took a relic associated with Indian burials and survived a dramatic standoff with the cops.” Read the review at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.