Assistant D.A. Julia Chandler prides herself on being tough
on the bad guys. A hard-nosed prosecutor for the state, she
likes to see justice handed out swiftly and with as little
mercy as possible. Julia has to rethink her position when
her teenage niece, Emily, is accused of murdering her
stepfather and then trying to commit suicide. Julia can't
bring herself to believe that Emily is capable of doing
either.
Now Julia finds herself on the other side of the law. The
side where a desperate and frustrated family member
believes in the innocence of a loved one even as the
evidence against them keeps stacking up. Julia enlists the
services of private investigator Connor Kincaid, a man
whose career Julia ruined years before in an Internal
Affairs scandal.
Connor, forced to resign from the police force, has never
forgiven Julia, but he loves Emily like a little sister and
signs on for the defense. During the course of their
investigation, the team discovers an online "wish list" -- a
chat room run by a court-appointed psychiatrist where
teenagers are encouraged to post their feelings about
adults who have "wronged" them in some way. Now it looks
like someone, or maybe more than one someone, is acting on
those postings. Julia and Connor learn there have been a
series of murders they can positively link to the list.
They also soon discover that they've become the group's
next targets.
A compelling romantic thriller about a group of troubled
teenage bad seeds and the defense team working to bring
them down. Early on, I thought I knew who was behind
everything. I was so wrong! The first book in Brennan's
suspenseful series was SPEAK NO EVIL (released last month).
Coming next month is the last book in the trilogy, FEAR NO
EVIL.
A troubled teenage girl has been charged with the grisly
murder of her stepfather. The evidence is damning: Emily
was found alone at the scene with blood on her hands, and
an incriminating e-mail she wrote outlines a murder plot
identical to the method of the brutal slaying. But deputy
district attorney Julia Chandler believes her niece is
innocent, and she’s determined to keep the promise she made
to protect her dead brother’s daughter–even if it means
hiring private eye Connor Kincaid . . . the man who blames
her for forcing his resignation from the police department.
Together Julia and Connor uncover a chain of unsolved
violent crimes tied to an unorthodox therapist whose
anonymous online patients purge their anger by posting
lethal fantasies. But someone in the group has turned
vigilante, turning the game of virtual murder into a flesh-
and-blood vendetta.
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