Book description
Law professor Natalie Greco has an ordered life. She feels a passion
for teaching, especially her arcane seminar on the History of Justice,
even though the course is pathetically undersubscribed in the
high-powered law school. She has an attentive boyfriend and a protective
family, although her testosterone-fuelled big brothers and very
successful parents tend to overlook the quiet Nat. Then one terrible
day, everything changes. Nat accompanies her colleague Angus to a prison
in Chester County where he's a guest lecturer. It's a nice day for a
drive through the countryside, the site for much Underground Railroad
activity during the Civil War. However, the trip turns grim when they
arrive at the prison, hardly inside before the speaker system announces
a “disturbance” and orders a lockdown. They're smack in the middle of a
riot. In front of a horrified Nat, a prison guard is fatally injured.
Nat rushes to help him, only to hear his last words: “Tell my wife. It's
under the floor. The money.” At that moment, reinforcements arrive, the
riot is quelled, and Nat and Angus are escorted out of the building by
U. S. marshals. Remembering the dying guard's words, Nat feels she must
find his widow. But this is no simple quest, and along the way, Nat is
framed for murder and the retiring scholar finds herself in a desperate
fight to save her own life.
Lisa Scottoline is a New York Times bestselling author and a former
trial lawyer. Her books are published in more than twenty languages
and she remains a lifelong resident of the Philadelphia area, where
many of her books are set.
You can find out more about Lisa on her website www.
lisascottoline. com
