Ellis Alves is a bad kid from the 'hood with a long record, but did he really murder Melissa Henderson, a white student from ritzy Pemberton College? Alves's former lawyers think he was framed, and they hire Spenser to uncover the truth. From Boston's back streets to Manhattan's elite, Spenser and Hawk search for suspects, including Melissa's rich kid tennis-star boyfriend. But when a man with a .22 puts Spenser in a coma, the hope for justice might just die along with the detective...
- ISBN10 1901982580
- ISBN13 9781901982589
- Publish Date 20 July 1999 (first published 1 March 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oldcastle Books Ltd
- Imprint No Exit Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 352
- Language English