Series ✦ Penny’s Take
Supreme Justice
Phillip Margolin · 2010
68/100
👎 Skip It
Margolin knows how to pace a political thriller and the Supreme Court conspiracy is plausible enough to keep you turning pages. The problem is the violence — serial murder imagery is graphically described and consistent throughout, keeping this firmly in adult-only territory. Series readers who already know Dana Cutler will get what they expect; newcomers should know what they are signing up for.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: gruesome violence imagery · serial murder themes · abduction. We still scored it 68; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety62
Substance / usefulness73
Craft & writing76
Originality60
Evidence & accuracy70
Hype vs delivers68
Age-fit79
👁 Human-eye gut-check67
Penny’s verdict68
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