The INNOCENCE THAT KILLS (A Nate Rosen Mystery) - Hardcover

Ronald Levitsky

9780684197074: The INNOCENCE THAT KILLS (A Nate Rosen Mystery)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684197073 ISBN 13: 9780684197074

Publisher: Scribner, 1994

When civil rights lawyer Nate Rosen returns to Chicago to try a case and spend time with his fifteen-year-old daughter, he finds himself embroiled in the possible molestation of one of his daughter's schoolmates by a teacher and the murder of another young girl

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From Booklist:

Two obviously guilty murderers are freed in a Chicago courtroom when Washington, D.C., civil-rights attorney Nate Rosen proves they were arrested illegally. The case over, Rosen faces an even tougher task: convincing his 15-year-old daughter, Sarah, who lives in Chicago with Rosen's ex-wife, that adherence to the Constitution is more important than the just resolution of a single crime. But when Sarah's best friend is murdered, apparently by her high-school drama teacher, and Sarah herself may have been molested by the same man, Rosen's concern with constitutional rights is overwhelmed by parental outrage. As Rosen embarks on his crusade to convict the drama teacher, his analytical mind drives him in a different direction: a cover-up orchestrated by the Ellsworth Corporation, where the murdered girl's mother worked. The fourth Rosen novel is another strong entry in an excellent series. The introspective Rosen always confronts more than the case at hand. Here he must realize that his daughter is now a young woman and that he can't shield her from the world's cruelties. He also comes to terms with his own estrangement from his father, to whom he hasn't spoken in 20 years. Even the murder is more than it seems. We know who did it, but the human foibles that surround the crime--lust, fear, innocence lost, and injustice--remain out of reach. A flawless performance. Wes Lukowsky

From Publishers Weekly:

Class conflict and family estrangement give emotional depth to this slow-to-develop Nate Rosen mystery. The trial of two young murderers brings civil rights lawyer Rosen back to Chicago, his childhood home and the current residence of his ex-wife Bess and teenaged daughter Sarah. Shortly after the trial, a girl is murdered in the ritzy suburb of Arbor Shore, where Sarah lives with her mother and stepfather. Dead is Nina Melendez, Sarah's best friend and daughter of the Dominican housekeeper at the Arbor Shore estate of the Ellsworth family. The girls' high school drama teacher, who may have been inappropriately close to his students, seems a prime suspect, but the school dismisses the charges and Nina's family asks Rosen to investigate. Working with Nina's aunt Lucila, Rosen uncovers entanglements within the Ellsworth household, some involving the steely security expert/bodyguard known as Soldier. Levitsky ( The Love That Kills ) effectively contrasts the gritty Dominican inner-city neighborhood with the stultifying secretiveness of Arbor Shore, but his plot proceeds haltingly to a bloody and improbable conclusion. Rosen, as concerned with his relationship with his daughter and his father, who disowned him, as he is with the killing, is an intriguing protagonist who deserves a more compelling narrative.
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