ABOUT THE BOOK

Brooklyn lawyer Cass Jameson faces the most difficult case of her career when she is called upon to defend her brother Ron, a quadriplegic Vietnam vet, against the 15 year old murder of a federal agent. Cass is convinced Ron is innocent, but there is a hitch and it's a big one. The case has resurfaced because the other defendant - Ron's fugitive girlfriend Jan - has decided to come up from the underground and turn herself in. As a result Cass is forced to revisit the idealistic summer of '69, when she spent time with Ron, Jan and other students trying to help migrant farm workers. Reminiscing isn't much of a sentimental journey, though; instead it brings one unwelcome surprise after another. Troubled Waters is fast paced and exciting with sharply drawn characters, great dialogue and a biting sense of humour.

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