ABOUT THE BOOK

Brooklyn lawyer Cass Jameson finally has an innocent client! When she wins Keith Jerningan's case, she feels she's on the side of the angels. But Keith himself is no angel - as Cass discovers when she learns that he has stalked his ex-girlfriend, Tobie, and disfigured her for life by throwing acid in her face. Jernigan now blames Tobie for time he spent in jail on trumped up charges and Cass is responsible for letting him loose to prey on the girl.

At the same time as she is searching for Tobie, Cass gets embroiled in a divorce case, when her client Nellis Cartwright is accused of theft by her ex-husband. He threatens to destroy Cass is she defends Nellis, and Cass is forced to fight for her professional life. When Nellis dies from a bullet meant for Cass, she has to become more than a lawyer, more than a detective, if she wants to stay alive. Now it is her turn to stalk the killer - she must investigate the husband of her dead client - and the man she has sworn to defend.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

'A real find, right up there with Patricia Cornwell, Minette Walters and Kathy Reichs' - Crime Time

'A bitter story of youthful commitment, folly and corruption' - New York Times Book Review

Wheat's dazzlingly plotted fifth book ploughs much the same rich territory as Scott Turow's Laws of our Fathers, but at half the length. Required reading for anyone who remembers the '60s - or anybody who's forgotten them' - Kirkus

'She has an extraordinary ear for how people talk. I'm always jealous of the way she can create a sense of a person...with a few lines of dialogue' - Sara Paretsky

'a witty, gritty heroine' - New York Post

'well-nigh perfect...a natural storyteller' - Kirkus