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Alex Barber's secure job as a district attorney is threatened when he takes on the murder of a local boy, who happens to be in the same class as his own son, Jacob. Despite Alex's protestations that Jacob could never do such a thing, Jacob is indicted for the crime. Even as Alex discovers questionable evidence, he works to clear his son's name, even as, in future snippets from an interrogation happening after Jacob's trial, Alex denies removing evidence and using his knowledge of the law to keep
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Alas, I wanted to like this more than I did, because I saw the author at the Massachusetts Library Association and I was super impressed. I wonder if I was more critical of the book than I would have been otherwise because of that, but I don't think so.
First off, really good legal drama with such a thought-provoking premise, so that's great.
There were three things that really bugged me, though. 1) Overuse of parenthetical asides. Most of the time, the contents would have been perfectly natural i ...more
First off, really good legal drama with such a thought-provoking premise, so that's great.
There were three things that really bugged me, though. 1) Overuse of parenthetical asides. Most of the time, the contents would have been perfectly natural i ...more
Wowza! After several recommendations via my Entertainment Weekly magazines, I finally broke my dry reading spell and began reading this book. It grabbed me from the getgo. In light of school shootings and random acts of violence that exist in this world, it's not shocking that there is quite a bit of material out there, in film and in print, trying to answer the question, "Why?", trying to judge the causal factors, and trying to figure out how to move on. In Picoult's Nineteen Minutes, she does
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Nature or nurture? Fate or free will?
When Andy Barber becomes aware that a young man in his town has been brutally murdered, he pays attention for two reasons: first, he is the assistant DA and will be closely working with the trial, but second, his own son, Jacob, went to the same high school, was in the same grade as the victim. Not necessarily a conflict of interest, but what follows is: as the evidence piles up, it becomes likely that Jacob is the person responsible for the murder.
As the to ...more
When Andy Barber becomes aware that a young man in his town has been brutally murdered, he pays attention for two reasons: first, he is the assistant DA and will be closely working with the trial, but second, his own son, Jacob, went to the same high school, was in the same grade as the victim. Not necessarily a conflict of interest, but what follows is: as the evidence piles up, it becomes likely that Jacob is the person responsible for the murder.
As the to ...more
I liked all the court room drama, but I hated the ending of this book.
Fantastic , keep you on the edge mystery!
Over 400 pgs in 14 days....can I do it?
Feb 11, 2012
erin
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