Book description
When a teenaged boy is discovered stabbed to death in the woods
adjoining the local high school, a wave of shock ripples through the
suburban community of Newton, outside of Boston. Assistant district
attorney Andy Barber is used to dealing with murder and its
after-efffects, but with his own son, Jacob, also a student at the
school, he too is anxious for a swift arrest and conviction. But as the
kids appear to be stonewalling the cops and the investigation stalls,
evidence emerges that ties Jacob to the crime - and suddenly Andy faces
a very different challenge: preventing his son from being convicted of
murder. Together with his wife, Laurie, the family closes ranks in the
midst of an increasingly hostile community as Andy prepares for the
trial of his life, the one trial he cannot afford to lose. Especially
when the emergence of his own dark family secrets threatens to undermine
Jacob's defence. And as the drama reaches its climax, Andy and Laurie
have to face every parent's toughest questions: how well do you really
know your own child, and how far would you go to save them? William
Landay was an assistant district attorney before he turned to writing.
He lives in Boston.
