Defending Jacob

by William Landay

First published 2012

When a shocking crime shatters their quiet Massachusetts town, assistant district attorney Andy Barber is blindsided as his own 14-year-old son Jacob is charged with the murder of a classmate. As the high-profile case threatens to tear his family apart, Andy must navigate a trial of his own - between loyalty to his son and the demands of the justice system, between the truth he knows and the dark allegations that emerge. In this gripping legal thriller, a father is forced to confront how well he really knows the child he thought he could trust with his life.

Genres: mystery, crime, family-drama, legal-thriller

Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking

Tropes: family-drama, unreliable-narrator

Setting: Massachusetts

432 pages · Hardcover · Orion Books

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