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Burned out defense attorney Joe Dillard, against his better judgment, takes the case of Angel Christian, a waitress in a strip club, who is accused of stabbing a preacher to death in a Tennessee motel--a case that is linked to his own deeply troubled sister and a vindictive detective. Original.
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This novel is a turn-pager, focused on a single but decisive question: Who killed Reverend Tester, a Tennessee preacher with a double life? What initially appears to be a simple question, turns into an increasingly complex plot, filled with many characters on both sides of the law.
Pratt uses the familiar ingredients of a murder mystery, but he accelerates the tempo of the action and increases the involvement of the characters in the crime. His world is filled not only with violent criminals but also with corrupt policemen, dubious lawyers, and problematic judges who use trials for other purposes than…
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