From the co-author of Black Mass comes a gripping YA novel based on
the true story of a teenage girl's murder--and a young father's false
imprisonment for the crime.
On a hot summer night in the late 1980s, in the Boston neighborhood of
Roxbury, a fourteen-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
worked on this story three decades ago, brings the case to light once
more with Trell, a page-turning novel about the daughter of the
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?