A superb courtroom drama with volatile emotional context is the theme of this book. Sarah Lynch is an attorney is not practicing law, she is playing hockey. As this book takes place in Boston, her career change is not seen as terribly radical. She had a bad experience that is alluded to but never explained. Her eccentric Uncle Buddy Clancy, worried over her state of mind, entices her to the dark side, that of defending an accused criminal rather than the prosecution side she once practiced.
Buddy Clancy would top the list of interesting people anyone has encountered. He and his golden retriever, Rehnquist, both sport bow ties and both have a sweet tooth. The case is fraught with current topics and undertones of intolerance. The accused is a African Muslim who is regarded by the community as an “Arab” in the worse sense. She is accused of killing a fireman who was attempting to rescue her from her burning store.
The plot is complicated and believable. The current emotional attitude toward anyone different, particularly any one that can be considered related to terrorism, weighs heavily on all of the characters. Greed, redevelopment and the pedestal fireman now occupy fill out the emotional provocative aspects of the book.
This was a very good book and an outstanding courtroom drama.
I highly recommend it.
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