| The blockbuster book "The Lincoln Lawyer" by New | | | | restrictions so check with your local sheriff's |
| York Times best selling author Michael Connelly is | | | | department.2. That gut feeling-called intuition-follow it. |
| based in large part on a wealthy playboy type, Louis | | | | If the situation doesn't feel right to you-get out!!3. |
| Roulet, who makes his living in real estate. Roaming | | | | Meet a new customer at the office and introduce |
| the streets of LA is the "Real Estate Rapist" who | | | | him/her to some coworkers. Make a copy of their |
| somehow knows how to gain access to vacant | | | | driver's license or get the plate number off their car. |
| homes and lures female agents there to rape them. | | | | Explain it as office policy which it should be for |
| One of them is allegedly Mary Alice Windsor, Louis's | | | | security reasons. Never meet a new customer at the |
| mother.The book is fiction of course. In real life | | | | property especially if it is vacant. Ask the customer |
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