Lara Sanderstone is a young, dedicated judge when her sister is brutally murdered and life spins out of control. She finds herself coping with her troubled fourteen-year-old nephew and the shocking possibility that he is connected to the murder. Then the presiding judge accuses Lara of impropriety and social services try to take her nephew away. Suddenly Lara realises she is no longer the judge, but the judged. When the investigation uncovers shocking facts about the life her sister was leading, Lara is horrified to realise that she may have been the intended target. Now not only Lara's job, but her life is on the line ...
- ISBN10 0525936807
- ISBN13 9780525936800
- Publish Date 1 October 1993 (first published 1 September 1993)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 18 August 2009
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
- Imprint E P Dutton & Co Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 368
- Language English