From the co-author of Black Mass comes a gripping YA novel inspired
by the true story of a young man's false imprisonment for murder --
and those who fought to free him.
On a hot summer night in the late 1980s, in the Boston neighborhood of
Roxbury, a twelve-year-old African-American girl was sitting on a
mailbox talking with her friends when she became the innocent victim of
gang-related gunfire. Amid public outcry, an immediate manhunt was on to
catch the murderer, and a young African-American man was quickly
apprehended, charged, and -- wrongly -- convicted of the crime. Dick
Lehr, a former reporter for the Boston Globe's famous Spotlight Team
who investigated this case for the newspaper, now turns the story into
Trell, a page-turning novel about the daughter of an imprisoned man
who persuades a reporter and a lawyer to help her prove her father's
innocence. What pieces of evidence might have been overlooked? Can they
manage to get to the truth before a dangerous character from the
neighborhood gets to them?