They have the power to overturn wrongful convictions… and a target on their backs.Elke Lawrence welcomes the long hours and relocation her “promotion” requires. She hopes leading the new Conviction Review Unit, an experimental investigation team, means leaving her wrecked marriage and troubled past behind.Their first case challenges that notion.Twenty-five years ago, someone sat Dr. Abeer … notion.
Twenty-five years ago, someone sat Dr. Abeer Mukherjee and his wife Tempest on their couch and shot them in the head, execution style. Their eighteen-year-old daughter and her boyfriend were sentenced to life in prison. They insist they are innocent.
The evidence suggests they’re telling the truth.
But as Elke and her team delve deeper into the case, it becomes clear there are those determined to keep the truth buried… even if that means burying the team with it. Is this all somehow tied to her murky past?
Will the CRU’s first case be its last?
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Good charactors. Unpredictable. A good read.
5* Intensely loaded with great murder investigation and personal stories of the investigator
excellent kept guessing
While the focus of this book is the new job of its main character, determining whether the convicted are innocent, readers are led into not only the workings of that group, but the personal lives and struggles of its other participants. That character development and just enough suspense.
I enjoyed this book. When working at night I have time to enjoy the books. This one was really good.
Interesting story line.
Great ensemble of characters that I found very engaging, and was rooting them on in their individual and group challenges and activities. I will read more of this series!
Enjoyed it very much. Would like to read more of her books!
This was a good read. Loved the main character who just would not give up. It keep you on your toes.
Enjoyed the characters (can’t say they were “wonderful” but they were realistic). Interesting view of that sector of justice system.
It was hard to put down.
This is the first in a obvious series. Nicely done foundation for the series.
Mediocre
I did not care for book. Too drawn out about thing happening
A Conviction Review Unit was created in the town of Haven Hills after a documentary was aired about a Haven Hills man who had been in prison for twenty years and then cleared after DNA at the murder scene proved he was innocent. The unit was headed by Elke Lawrence, a disgraced Prosecutor who had tried to defend her husband Felix, not knowing he would be convicted of being a drug lord; Frankie Hart, a Defense Attorney who had gone up against Elke many times; Detective Iain Hudson, a police officer who could not understand how to converse with people; and Amos Bradley, a gay man who served as their Administrative Assistant. The Haven Hills Police were very unhappy with them opening up the case and even gave them the file with a page missing and then made sure the DNA testing took longer than usual. Iain had presented the unit with the twenty-five year old case about an Indian teenage girl and her white boyfriend who reported the murder of her parents an hour after they came home from their date. They told the police they sneaked into the dark house so her parents would not know they were there to have sex and when the girl came down an hour later, she saw blood, started screaming and then she and her boyfriend discovered the bodies which were sitting on the living room couch, shot with her father’s gun. To the police, it was an open and shut case but Iain thought something was wrong with the police findings. They found and interviewed the witnesses again and solved the case. They were threatened several times to stop the investigation and find another one. They also solved the case of the Haven Hills Ripper, a case the police were currently working on. As I met each of the people involved, the couple now in jail for twenty five years, their families and each witness, I tried to figure out if he or she were the murderer. I could not put the book down until the case was solved.
I recommend this book.
Excellent
Needs to be edited.
Kept my interest and the 2nd book is good also
Wonderful! Looking forward to more in the series