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Award-winning author William Landay has written the consummate novel of an embattled family in crisis--a suspenseful character-driven mystery that is also a spellbinding tale of guilt betrayal and the terrifying speed at which our lives can spin out of control Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years He is respected in his community tenacious in the courtroom and happy at home with his wife Laurie and son Jacob But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town Andy is blindsided by what happens next his fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student Every parental instinct Andy has rallies to protect his boy Jacob insists that he is innocent and Andy believes him Andy must Hes his father But as damning facts and shocking revelations surface as a marriage threatens to crumble and the trial intensifies and as the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son Andy will face a trial of his own--between loyalty and justice between truth and allegation between a past hes tried to bury and a future he cannot conceive.
About the Author
William Landay's latest novel is the New York Times bestseller "Defending Jacob." His previous novels are "Mission Flats," which won the Dagger Award as best debut crime novel of 2003, and "The Strangler," which was an L.A. Times favorite crime novel and was nominated for the Strand Magazine Critics Award as best crime novel of 2007.
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