The Crime is remarkably heinous: veteran police detective Joe McNaughton is found savagely slain, mutilated, and hung from a public fountain in downtown Tulsa. Scrawled across his chest in blood is the word Faithless. The accused is a tabloid reporter's dream: stunning, nineteen-year-old Keri Dalcanton, a stripper involved in a kinky affair with the married McNaughton...and now cast by media, police and public alike as a vengeful woman scomed. Powerful circumstantial evidence and the prosecution's deftly orchestrated attacks on the defendant's character have Ben Kincaid's client all but convicted - until a major technical blunder by overzealous cops overturns the case and sets Keri Dalcanton free. Amid a firestorm of outrage, Ben maintains his client's innocence. But angry comrades of the victim are convinced otherwise - and vow to see 'justice' done, by any means necessary, When a police raid on his office uncovers the blood-stained murder weapon, Ben gets a first hand taste of the infamous Blue Squeeze. And as a new trial of Keri Dalcanton is launched, Ben faces his own day in court, charged with conspiracy and murder.
What follows is a breathlessly twisting battle of legal wits - and lethal surprises - in which no holds are barred, no secrets are left unexposed, and, ultimately, nothing is what it seems. In Murder One, best-selling author William Bernhardt thrusts idealistic Tulsa, Oklahoma, attorney Ben Kincaid into the most controversial courtroom challenge of his carrer...an explosive murder case that Kincaid will confront not only as a lawyer - but as a defendant.
- ISBN10 0709070276
- ISBN13 9780709070276
- Publish Date 31 January 2002 (first published 3 April 2001)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 February 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher The Crowood Press Ltd
- Imprint Robert Hale Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 232
- Language English