SummaryAn edge-of-the-seat legal thriller about a woman who learns
the boy she's defending for murder may be the child she
gave up for adoption years earlier-from an Edgar Award
winner who belongs "in the ring with Scott Turow" (Kirkus
Reviews). Life Sentence, David Ellis's follow-up to his Edgar-winning
debut, Line of Vision, inspired great admiration from
lovers of courtroom suspense. "Ellis balances plot,
setting, pacing, characterization, and surprises in just
the right measure to create a compelling high-stakes
drama," said The Washington Post Book World. In Jury of One, Shelly Trotter, the daughter of the state's
governor and a children's-rights advocate, is thrust into a
world in which she's completely unschooled-the criminal
court. The defendant is a seventeen-year-old former client
who is accused of killing a cop. Shelly soon learns that
this boy was caught in the middle of an undercover
operation to trap corrupt officers. But what was his role
in the sting? The target or the bait? And what does the
prosecution really have against him? Then comes the shocker: The kid says he is the son she gave
up in a private adoption kept hush-hush by her father, who
had political ambitions beyond their small town. As the
evidence mounts, Shelly finds that nothing-not legal
ethics, not her father's reelection campaign-will stop her
from keeping her son off death row-for with this client,
she is truly a jury of one.
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