Un joven diputado es torturado y asesinado en Lost Lake, a orillas de un lago californiano. Vanessa, hija del general Wingate, cree reconocer al agresor: se trata de Carl Rice, un veterano de Vietnam que trabaja para su padre en una unidad militar secreta con licencia para matar. Pero la chica es recluida en un psiquiatrico y sus acusaciones desoidas. Años despues, la joven abogada Ami Vergano acude al partido de su hijo Ryan. Debido a la violencia con que concluye un incidente en el partido, el episodio salta a los informativos nacionales. Ami Vergano, involuntariamente involucrada en el paranoico mundo de Vanessa y Rice, no sabe si las acusaciones de estos son el producto de dos mentes enfermas: sera ella quien debera decidir a quien y que creer.
Algunas pruebas ayudan a encontrar al culpable... otras consiguen condenar a un inocente.En este fascinante thriller, Phillip Margolin insinúa una inquietante posibilidad: ¿qué ocurriría si no pudiéramos confiar en los profesionales de los laboratorios criminalisticos? Dos abogados defensores comprueban, confusos, que las pruebas de distintos casos incriminan a sus defendidos, a los que creian inocentes. Ante esto, deciden unir fuerzas. Su investigacion los llevara a buscar en los lugares mas reconditos de las escenas de los crimenesMargolin consigue meternos de lleno en el ambiente de los laboratorios de investigacion criminal.
An impossible case. A killer secret. And a lawyer who will not rest until she finds the truthWhen a young woman accuses college-football superstar Blaine Hastings of sexual assault, the DNA evidence against him is overwhelming. Yet the athlete swears his innocence and threatens both his lawyer and his accuser. When a second attack occurs, DNA findings once again point to Hastings. The only problem? Hastings was in prison when the crime was committed.The pacing is impeccable. BooklistSoon Hastings is granted a new trial and bail. Then his original lawyer disappearsand his law partner is found dead. Who is behind these crimesand who will be the next target? These are the questions that Robin Lockwood, a young lawyer and former MMA fighter, intends to answer. She is representing the victim of the first attack, who is convinced that Hastings is stalking her. Is he the one behind these acts of intimidation? Meanwhile, another one of Robins clients is up on a murder chargeone that should be dismissed as self-defense but is being brought to trial. Is there a link between these two cases? Now Robin must find a way to see that justice is servedand not end up a victim in the process.Packed with surprises all the way to the end.Fresh Fictio
