The truth of it all : a novel / Gwen Florio.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Crooked Lane, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionDescription: 296 pages ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781643858579
- 1643858572
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Mystery | FLORIO, GWEN | JG 1 | Available | 33111010673735 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Public defender Julia Geary lands a breakout case when members of the high school soccer team report seeing a teammate - Iraqi refugee Sami Mohammed - assaulting a girl in the locker room. In a town where animosity against refugees has already reached a fever pitch, Julia throws all her energy into Sami's defence. She begins receiving vicious threats against her family, and a senseless act of violence leaves Sami in a coma. If Sami survives and Julia can prove him innocent, it will be the case of a lifetime. But now it's her life that's on the line.
When she finally gets a breakout case involving a teenage Iraqi refugee, public defender Julia Geary throws herself into the case until she starts receiving vicious threats against her family and her client is left in a coma, pitting her against the town's most powerful forces.
Public defender Julia Geary longs for a breakout case. It arrives when members of the high school soccer team report seeing a teammate-- Iraqi refugee Sami Mohammed-- assaulting a girl in the locker room. In a town where animosity against refugees has reached a fever pitch, Julia finds an ally in high school principal Dom Parrish, who believes Sami is innocent. Then Julia receives vicious threats against her family, and a senseless act of violence leaves Sami in a coma. When new evidence points to the town's most prominent citizens, powerful forces are determined to bury the truth. -- adapted from jacket