"With twists, turns and some jaw dropping revelations it really is one that no crime fan should miss."
This stunning, sophisticated, legal thriller has been lauded with praise by some heavyweight crime authors [see the review section] and we can only agree. A community is shocked when a school boy is found brutally stabbed to death but it takes a shockingly personal turn when the son of the Assistant district attorney is implicated in the killing. How far will he go to protect his son? With twists, turns and some jaw dropping revelations it really is one that no crime fan should miss.
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This is one of the best legal thrillers I’ve ever read (even better that Scott Turow’s Presumed Innocent, and that’s saying something) because it’s emotionally devastating (but, you know, in a good way). A lawyer sets out to prove his son could not be responsible for the death of a young girl. The characters go to hell and back as their lives are turned upside down, and just when we think their world is going to get back to normal, a shattering development that lands on the page with three simple words. (Oh, how I wish I could tell you what they are. But I can tell you that my jaw didn’t just drop. It hit the floor, rolled under the couch, and it took me five minutes to find it.) We haven’t seen a new book from Landay in almost a decade. I hope he’s working on something.
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