This powerful novel opens with a spectacular drive-by shooting in one of Kindle County's most notorious drug-plagued housing projects. The victim is an aging white woman who has never been seen there before; within days of her son, Nile Eddgar, a probation officer, is charged in connection with the crime - and the reader falls gratefully once more under.

(Key Words: Scott Turow, Murder Mysteries, Fiction, Novels, Trials).