Lucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl. His lawyer Billy Bob Holland is convinced of Lucas's innocence but proving it means unearthing the truth from a seething mass of deceit and corruption. A corruption endemic in the way it can be only in a gossipy small town where everybody knows everybody else's business.
Billy Bob's relationship with Lucas's family is not an easy one - years back he was a close friend of Mrs Smothers, too close according to her husband Vernon. And when Lucas overhears gruesome tales of serial murder from a neighbouring cell in the local lock-up, the waters are muddied even further and Lucas himself looks like a candidate for an untimely death.
- ISBN10 0786889306
- ISBN13 9780786889303
- Publish Date 1 June 1998 (first published 19 May 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 April 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Hyperion Books
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 406
- Language English