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