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A Circuit Court judge makes his first foray into fiction with a courtroom drama about a woman on trial for perjury, the husband she accused of molesting their young daughter, and the civil lawyer assigned to defend her. Reprint.
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Jack Brenner thinks he can improve the quality of his life by moving from Chicago and his increasingly thankless job as a public defender to the small Michigan town of Kirtley and the relative calm of a civil practice. Think again, Jack. From this decidedly overused premise, Michigan Circuit Court Judge Stan Latreille has produced a surprisingly fresh debut legal thriller--albeit one with echoes of ancestors such as To Kill A Mockingbird and Anatomy of a Murder. At the heart of the story is an attractive, mercurial woman named Davey Alden, who may or may not have been lying when she accused her ex- husband of child abuse, and who then recanted after being charged with perjury. Davey plays Jack like an expert angler as he tries to avoid her charms while acting as her court-appointed lawyer, and it's safe to say that nothing we think going into this sharply written story turns out to be true. --Dick Adler
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r and trial judge poised to join the ranks of Scott Turow and Lisa Scottoline, Perjury is a fast-paced courtroom drama about lies, sexual abuse, and the conflict between law and justice.
Jack Brenner, a burned-out public de-fender from Chicago, has left lying clients and political maneuvering behind to take on the more lucrative, predictable routine of a civil lawyer in a small Michigan town. But when the court assigns him to defend a woman accused of perjury, he is swept back into the labyrinth of the criminal justice system--and into a nest of small-town politics, greed, and revenge.
His client, Davey Alden, has admitted she lied on the stand, fabricating the incidents when she claimed her husband Joel Alden sexually abused their young daughter. Outraged by Davey's deceit, the town and the legal system have shifted their sympathies to her husband, one of the most powerful men in the county. A quick, open-and-shut
Jack Brenner, a burned-out public de-fender from Chicago, has left lying clients and political maneuvering behind to take on the more lucrative, predictable routine of a civil lawyer in a small Michigan town. But when the court assigns him to defend a woman accused of perjury, he is swept back into the labyrinth of the criminal justice system--and into a nest of small-town politics, greed, and revenge.
His client, Davey Alden, has admitted she lied on the stand, fabricating the incidents when she claimed her husband Joel Alden sexually abused their young daughter. Outraged by Davey's deceit, the town and the legal system have shifted their sympathies to her husband, one of the most powerful men in the county. A quick, open-and-shut
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- PublisherOnyx
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0451196872
- ISBN 13 9780451196873
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages384
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