Chilling Effect (a Lucinda Hayes Mystery) Book

Same character as the other two Wesson books and same location (Boulder) which I continued to love to experience super-familiarity as I read. Every time she talked about the cross-walk between the parking lot and the Boulder courthouse I could vividly picture it. Almost every Boulder scene was familiar to me.
The topic of this legal mystery was the impact of pornography and the first amendment which is of great interest to me with my women studies and journalism background. I like the idea that the first amendment does not protect you from the consequences of your speech. Speech is specifically protected because it is a powerful tool, but if we know that our speech (or like product) can result in a wrong being committed, we need to accept the responsibility for that. In this case, the responsibility was financial, mostly, which for some is not too great of a burden to bear. And I believe, I would not feel any better about the loss of my child even if the perpetrator was in jail and/or I received millions of dollars in exchange. In other words, it wouldn't be a motivator for me to do what this character did. I was able to predict the gist of what was going to happen for the twist at the end. And, either I got smarter since reading the others in this series, or it wasn't as technically challenging for me. Great brain candy, though. Read the whole series just for fun.