When a frat boy finds himself on trial in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for piracy on the high seas, Lawyer Rep Pennyworth, suspects he's being used as an unwitting accomplice in a cheap publicity stunt. Meanwhile his wife Melissa, the professor-half of the couple, gets caught in the middle of a verbal firefight between two colleagues at a literary conference that soon escalates into burglary, theft, jury-tampering, forgery of an explosive papal document from World War II and murder.

Melissa wants to protect a naive undergraduate who might be implicated. But when one of the other suspects makes Melissa a cast-iron alibi, she finds that her search for the truth leads through a maze of gray lies including her own. Rep and Melissa have to combine their talents to stay off the casualty list while they figure out what's really going on.

On the night before the 2008 Army-Navy Game, a midshipman is found stark naked and barely alive in the lobby of a cheap motel near the Naval Academy. The plebe's closest relatives are Ole and Lena Lindstrom, a pair of aging but still scrappy Wisconsin political activists who want lawyer Rep Pennyworth to help them get copyright protection for an audacious package of campaign ideas that put rich and ruthless gambling interests in the cross-hairs. The political neophyte they have in mind as a candidate heads a think-tank at UWM, where she is exploiting for her own political purposes the sensitive issue of domestic violence.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers, or at least one. . . . Vance Hayes died late one night when his snowmobile broke through thin ice near the Wisconsin Dells. The cold-hearted, hard-headed lawyer is unmourned by clients, colleagues, or anyone else--including his reluctant eulogist, fellow attorney Rep Pennyworth.

When a frat boy finds himself on trial in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for piracy on the high seas, Lawyer Rep Pennyworth, suspects heas being used as an unwitting accomplice in a cheap publicity stunt. Meanwhile his wife Melissa, the professor-half of the couple, gets caught in the middle of a verbal firefight between two colleagues at a literary conference that soon escalates into burglary, theft, jury-tampering, forgery of an explosive papal document from World War IIaand murder.

Lawyer Rep Pennyworth suspects that the frat boy on trial for piracy in Milwaukee is being used in a cheap publicity stunt. Meanwhile Reps wife Melissa, a professor, witnesses a verbal firefight between two colleagues that escalates into burglary, jury-tampering, and forgery of document from World War IIand murder. Though Melissa wants to protect a nave undergraduate, one of the other suspects makes Melissa a cast-iron alibi and her search for the truth leads through a maze of gray liesincluding her own. Dealing with an investigative reporter, a fellow professor with ruthless academic ambition, and a brace of cunning lawyers, Rep and Melissa combine their talents to stay off the casualty list.... Shoot the Lawyer Twice is the fourth book in Michael Bowens Pennyworth mystery series.