A lawyer's race to reveal a wrongful conviction collides with the dark
shadow of a murder in his own home in this propulsive and
perfectly-plotted new thriller from award-winning writer Allen Eskens.
When Boady Sanden first receives the case of Elijah Matthews, he's
certain there's not much he can do. Elijah, who believes himself to be a
prophet, has been locked up in a psychiatric hospital for the past four
years, convicted of brutally murdering the pastor of a megachurch. But
as a law professor working for the Innocence Project, Boady agrees to
look into Elijah's file. When he does, he is alarmed to find threads
that lead back to the death of his colleague and friend, Ben Pruitt, a
man shot to death four years earlier in Boady's own home.
Ben's daughter, Emma, has lived with Boady and Boady's wife Dee ever
since that awful night. Now fourteen years old, Emma has been growing
distant, and soon makes a fateful choice that takes her far from the
safety of her godparents. Desperate to bring her home, and to free an
innocent man, Boady must do all he can to investigate Elijah's case
while fighting to save the family he has deeply come to love.
Written with energy, propulsion, and his characteristic pathos and
insight, Eskens delivers another pitch-perfect legal thriller that
reveals a twisted murder and explores faith, love, family, and
redemption along the way.
