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When a preacher is stabbed to death in a Tennessee motel, the investigation points to a strip‑club waitress named Angel. Defense attorney Joe Dillard, weary and disillusioned, finds himself reluctantly taking her case, convinced she could not have committed the crime. Yet as the layers of evidence unfold, Dillard must wrestle with a vengeful detective, the victim’s enraged son, and personal demons linked to his troubled sister. Their intersecting motives blur the boundaries between guilt and innocence, forcing Dillard to confront the truth behind a crime that may not be what it seems.
First publish date: 2008
Genre: Thriller/Legal Thriller
Authors: Scott Pratt
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