Special preorder price through December 4, 2016! Ex-con Nora Dockson broke free from her trailer park roots and went to law school. She works only for convicted felons, trying to force a flawed system to treat them fairly.
But can she — should she? — help Silvia Simon?
The young single mother insists she’s not guilty of arson-murder.
But investigators determined only Silvia could’ve started the fire. The prosecutor argued that Silvia set it to kill her daughter.
Were they wrong? Or is Silvia lying?
Trying to make sense of what happened, Nora ends up at the murky junction where arson myths and bad-mother stereotypes collide with modern science.
Piecing together Silvia’s story, Nora rediscovers more of her own.
“A great character, a great series—I highly recommend it to people.”
—Stephen Campbell, CrimeFiction.FM
Fans of John Grisham and Lisa Scottoline will be captivated by this engrossing legal thriller. Diana Deverell illuminates the problem facing vulnerable women accused of crimes that cannot be overturned by DNA evidence.
Special preorder price through December 4, 2016! Ex-con Nora Dockson broke free from her trailer park roots and went to law school. She works only for convicted felons, trying to force a flawed system to treat them fairly.
But can she — should she? — help Silvia Simon?
The young single mother insists she’s not guilty of arson-murder.
But investigators determined only Silvia could’ve started the fire. The prosecutor argued that Silvia set it to kill her daughter.
Were they wrong? Or is Silvia lying?
Trying to make sense of what happened, Nora ends up at the murky junction where arson myths and bad-mother stereotypes collide with modern science.
Piecing together Silvia’s story, Nora rediscovers more of her own.
“A great character, a great series—I highly recommend it to people.”
—Stephen Campbell, CrimeFiction.FM
Fans of John Grisham and Lisa Scottoline will be captivated by this engrossing legal thriller. Diana Deverell illuminates the problem facing vulnerable women accused of crimes that cannot be overturned by DNA evidence.