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A lawyer's race to reveal a wrongful conviction collides with the dark shadow of a murder in his own home in this propulsive and perfectly-plotted thriller from award-winning writer Allen Eskens. When Boady Sanden first receives the case of Elijah Matthews, he's certain there's not much he can do. Elijah, who believes himself to be a prophet, has been locked up in a psychiatric hospital for the past four years, convicted of brutally murdering the pastor of a megachurch. But as a law professor working for the Innocence Project, Boady agrees to look into Elijah's file. When he does, he is alarmed to find threads that lead back to the death of his colleague and friend, Ben Pruitt, a man shot to death four years earlier in Boady's own home. Ben's daughter, Emma, has lived with Boady and Boady's wife Dee ever since that awful night. Now fourteen years old, Emma has been growing distant, and soon makes a fateful choice that takes her far from the safety of her godparents. Desperate to bring her home, and to free an innocent man, Boady must do all he can to investigate Elijah's case while fighting to save the family he has deeply come to love. Written with energy, propulsion, and his characteristic pathos and insight, Eskens delivers another pitch-perfect legal thriller that reveals a twisted murder and explores faith, love, family, and redemption along the way.

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"Eskens is at the top of his skills.-- ""Oline H. Cogdill, The South Florida Sun Sentinel"" One of our best crime writers at the top of his game.-- ""William Kent Kreuger, New York Times bestselling author of This Tender Land and Lightning Strike"""

"""Boady Sanden, former director of the Innocence Project...somehow manages to collect more and more information that exonerates Elijah and throws suspicion elsewhere. But will he be able to rise above his own bias?..Ambitious, absorbing, and deeply satisfying."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"" ""Eskens brilliantly combines legal and personal drama in this stellar standalone mystery...Eskens peppers the thorny, propulsive plot with superior turns of phrase and fully realized characters. Scott Turow fans will be enthralled."" -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred review)"""

"Eskens is at the top of his skills.-- ""Oline H. Cogdill, The South Florida Sun Sentinel"" One of our best crime writers at the top of his game.-- ""William Kent Kreuger, New York Times bestselling author of This Tender Land and Lightning Strike"" ""Boady Sanden, former director of the Innocence Project...somehow manages to collect more and more information that exonerates Elijah and throws suspicion elsewhere. But will he be able to rise above his own bias?..Ambitious, absorbing, and deeply satisfying."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"" ""Eskens brilliantly combines legal and personal drama in this stellar standalone mystery...Eskens peppers the thorny, propulsive plot with superior turns of phrase and fully realized characters. Scott Turow fans will be enthralled."" -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred review)"""

"Eskens is at the top of his skills.-- ""Oline H. Cogdill, The South Florida Sun Sentinel"" One of our best crime writers at the top of his game.-- ""William Kent Kreuger, New York Times bestselling author of This Tender Land and Lightning Strike"" ""One of our best crime writers at the top of his game."" -- ""William Kent Kreuger, New York Times bestselling author"""

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Allen Eskens is the USA Today bestselling author of The Life We Bury, which has been published in twenty-six languages, and seven other novels, most recently Forsaken Country, The Stolen Hours, The Shadows We Hide, and Nothing More Dangerous. His books have won the Barry Award, the Rosebud Award, the Silver Falchion Award, and the Minnesota Book Award. Eskens is a former criminal defense attorney and lives with his wife, Joely, in greater Minnesota. Janina Edwards, an Earphone Award-winning narrator, is a graduate of the acting program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Matt Godfrey was raised on O'Connor, Welty, and Lee, and spent most of his teenage years in Yoknapatawpha County. But he traveled wherever the books took him, from Alabama to Tokyo, Twain to Murakami. Now he has the privilege of bringing those books to life as an audiobook narrator. He works in all genres and in a lot of accents, but specializes in his beloved Southern Gothic. He is a two-time nominee for the Society of Voice Arts & Sciences Awards and the Audiobook Reviewer Listener's Choice Awards. He has a fully equipped home studio and works with major publishers, small presses, and indie authors alike.

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