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Denver defense attorney Jackie Flowers
doesn't want to take the case. Convicted child killers are
not her favorite clients.
Thirty years ago, Rachel Boyd was just
a child herself when she was found guilty of killing her little
playmate, Freddie Gant. After three decades in reform school
and adult prison, Rachel is finally free. Free to find a new
life. Free to kill again?
Has she, in fact, already killed another
child? Shortly after settling in at the home of her brother,
wealthy banker Chris Boyd, Rachel may have succumbed to temptation.
Could it be just a coincidence that the gardener's child,
Benjamin Sparks, is found dead in circumstances somewhat similar
to the Freddie Gant murder?
Against her better instincts, Jackie accepts
Rachel's case. Everyone deserves a good defense. Jackie wants
desperately to embrace her client's innocence and believe
what Rachel tells her. Can she trust her enough to invite
her into her home to stay while she prepares for trial?
And what about Lily, the child next door
whom Jackie loves as her own? Just kicked out of boarding
school, she's facing a rocky adolescence. Rachel's influence
on her may be dangerous in more ways than one.
As Jackie fights to prove Rachel's innocence,
she must struggle with challenges both inside and outside
the courtroom: her dyslexia, which makes it tough to be a
lawyer, especially when the other side throws unexpected documents
in her face; her conflicted relationship with ex-lover Dennis
Ross, who's now an affluent civil litigator; her paralyzing
fear of heights. Will her fear cause her to fail at the most
crucial moment?
With its riveting insights into the legal
process and its devastating observations on good and evil
and the way the past can haunt the present, Seeds of Doubt
confirms the literary power of one of our brightest new crime-writing
talents.
Stephanie Kane, born and raised
in Brooklyn, has clerked for the Colorado Supreme Court and
been both a partner in a top Denver law firm and a criminal
defense attorney. The author of Extreme Indifference, Quiet
Time, and Blind Spot, she is married to a federal
judge and lives in Denver, Colorado. Visit her website at
www.writerkane.com.
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