The Mary Crow series is another one I have followed from the beginning though it has been a few years since her last installment. Mary Crow is a Cherokee lawyer whose own mother was killed many years ago, leading her to her vocation. She is staunch defender of the innocent and a ferocious prosecutor of the guilty. In this novel she is running for District Attorney, when she becomes involved in the twenty year unsolved case of a murdered girl.

A good look at how being a suspect, even if not officially, haunt the lives of the four young boys involved. How involved they were is the question, especially since one of the boys. Zach was a bit older and autistic. Also shows how the media convicts even without evidence just supposition and people's expressed opinions and how small minded some people are towards those who are different. When new evidence surfaces things in town will ratchet up again, once again causing some to once again strike out and Zack, now a grown man physically if not mentally, and his mother Grace.

Good solid storyline, well rounded characters, and an interesting case.

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