Kelsey Thatch, an assistant DA, is sent to a remote East Texas town to prosecute an unpleasant double murder involving the town's ruling family. A suspect is in custody, and the only puzzling aspect of the apparently straightforward case is that the dead couple's baby is missing. With more self-confidence than evidence, Kelsey takes the case to trial. Not much to our surprise, the obligatory reversal in the last chapter makes us see that the defendant, his relatives, and the courts of Defiance County have been carefully manipulated by the real murderer.
- ISBN10 0451196244
- ISBN13 9780451196248
- Publish Date 29 May 1997 (first published 31 December 1996)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 4 December 1997
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Signet Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 480
- Language English