William Morrow
May 2016
On Sale: May 3, 2016
Featuring: Luisa "Lu" Brant
368 pages ISBN: 0062083457 EAN: 9780062083456 Kindle: B014PNZB74 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed standalones After Iβm Gone, Iβd Know You Anywhere, and What the Dead Know, challenges our notions of memory, loyalty, responsibility, and justice in this evocative and psychologically complex story about a long-ago death that still haunts a family.
Luisa βLuβ Brant is the newly electedβand first femaleβstateβs attorney of Howard County, Maryland, a job in which her widower father famously served. Fiercely intelligent and ambitious, she sees an opportunity to make her name by trying a mentally disturbed drifter accused of beating a woman to death in her home. Itβs not the kind of case that makes headlines, but peaceful Howard county doesnβt see many homicides.
As Lu prepares for the trial, the case dredges up painful memories, reminding her small but tight-knit family of the night when her brother, AJ, saved his best friend at the cost of another manβs life. Only eighteen, AJ was cleared by a grand jury. Now, Lu wonders if the events of 1980 happened as she remembers them. What details might have been withheld from her when she was a child?
The more she learns about the case, the more questions arise. What does it mean to be a man or woman of oneβs times? Why do we ask our heroes of the past to conform to the presentβs standards? Is that fair? Is it right? Propelled into the past, she discovers that the legal system, the bedrock of her entire life, does not have all the answers. Lu realizes that even if she could learn the whole truth, she probably wouldnβt want to.
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