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The Defense Objects
(2027)(The second book in the Becca Mason Legal Thrillers series)
A novel by Peter Kirkland and Adele Wilde
The mayor wants a conviction. The town wants it over. Becca Mason wants the truth.
Becca left a big-city firm for the San Juans and a slower life. Instead she's a public defender buried in impossible cases and wondering why she ever came home.
Then Starlette Johnson walks into her office. They were inseparable at twelve. Thirty years later, Star has a criminal record, an addiction, and an eleven-year-old daughter she'd do anything to protect.
Now she's charged with murder. The victim: the mayor's wife, shot dead on a party barge in the middle of the Fourth of July fireworks — a harbor full of witnesses, and not one who heard the shot.
The evidence is overwhelming. Star's DNA is on the gun. The murder weapon is found in her car. To the whole town, the case is already over. Becca isn't convinced.
Star swears she was framed. The deeper Becca digs, the more she believes her. An affair no one will confirm. A mayor guarding more than his grief. A stranger who vanished the morning after.
Because someone framed Star—and they’ll do anything to keep the truth buried.
Genre: Thriller
Becca left a big-city firm for the San Juans and a slower life. Instead she's a public defender buried in impossible cases and wondering why she ever came home.
Then Starlette Johnson walks into her office. They were inseparable at twelve. Thirty years later, Star has a criminal record, an addiction, and an eleven-year-old daughter she'd do anything to protect.
Now she's charged with murder. The victim: the mayor's wife, shot dead on a party barge in the middle of the Fourth of July fireworks — a harbor full of witnesses, and not one who heard the shot.
The evidence is overwhelming. Star's DNA is on the gun. The murder weapon is found in her car. To the whole town, the case is already over. Becca isn't convinced.
Star swears she was framed. The deeper Becca digs, the more she believes her. An affair no one will confirm. A mayor guarding more than his grief. A stranger who vanished the morning after.
Because someone framed Star—and they’ll do anything to keep the truth buried.
Genre: Thriller
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