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Defending Jacob

By: William Landay
Narrated by: Eric Meyers
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Andy Barber's job is to put killers behind bars. So when a boy from his son Jacob's school is found stabbed to death, Andy is doubly determined to find and prosecute the perpetrator. Until a crucial piece of evidence turns up linking Jacob to the murder. In the face of every parent's worst nightmare, Andy and his wife Laurie will do anything to defend their child. Because, deep down, they know him better than anyone. Don't they?

©2012 William Landay (P)2012 W F Howes Ltd Genre Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime Thriller Law Exciting Scary Murder
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the question is can you be born a killer? from the start to the end of the book Jacobs father believes Jacob is innocent.
well drawn characters with a good plotline and American court procedure.
although this story is very good I feel it a one listen/read only.
eric Meyers did a reasonable job of performing the book but I found there wasn't a big enough difference between the teenagers voices and the female voices.

a fathers trust

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Very heavy content but so well written. You feel for both parents as infuriating as the father is, I understand his denial of how evil his son really is. And the mother...my heart just aches for her as she realises what she’s borne into the world and that she’s alone in dealing with it as her husband refuses to accept what his son is.

As others have stated, the family dynamics are quite similar to those presented in ‘We Need to Talk about Kevin’.

Excellent

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Finished it very quickly because the story is very gripping. The narrator is excellent! I read the book in preparation to watch the Apple TV+ adaptation. I remember I was trying to explain realism in prose fiction to one of my students, I should have referenced the tension and drama in this text. Because the book opens with a degree of normalcy and then it abruptly descends into chaos. And what an end! If I had to pick my top three characters I'd say Andy Barber #3, Laurie Barber #2, and Jonathan the defence lawyer #1.
Although I have learnt in the TV adaptation they turned my number one into a woman :/ I already like it a lot less. Why would you do that?

The Suspense

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I was hooked from the start. a great book which is well read. the characters are so well written that I sometimes forgot it was a work of fiction. it is desperately sad and at times chilling

gripping novel

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