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  • By: Ken Oder
  • Narrated by: Joe Geoffrey
  • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)
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By: Ken Oder
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Summary

When two men meet in the Virginia state penitentiary in a maximum security visitation room on May 5, 1968, they have only one thing in common: they both want their lives back. On one side of a glass divider sits Kenneth Deatherage, who was sentenced to death for the brutal rape and murder of a young woman. The jury agreed with the prosecutor's closing argument: that all evidence points to Deatherage as the killer. But Deatherage says the evidence was fabricated.

He claims that the judge and his own lawyer rigged the trial against him. On the other side of the divider sits Nate Abbitt, who was a successful prosecutor until he tried to drink his way through a midlife crisis. When he finally sobered up, he had lost his career, his marriage of 30 years, and his self-respect. He turned to criminal defense because it was the only work he could get.

When the court appoints Nate to represent Deatherage on appeal, Nate doesn't believe there's a grand conspiracy to send Deatherage to the electric chair. But when his investigation uncovers hints of corruption in the county justice system, he finds himself accused of murder by the same forces that convicted his client. To save himself, Nate risks his life and the lives of others, and in the process, discovers that he and Deatherage have much more in common than he wants to admit.

©2013 Ken Oder (P)2016 Ken Oder

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Closing in on a killer

This is book one in this series and even though I did like it the narrator wasn't the best and I found I had to really listen ( concentrate) to follow along, the plot was good and a lot happened.
Nate is an alcoholic lawyer who is given a client on death row, who claim his last lawyer, the judge and even the police framed for the murder. Nate's wife has filed for divorce and in a bid to win her back her throws himself into the case and starts to wonder if his client is telling the truth. As he dig deeper more bodies are discovered and secrets start to bubble up. Not all of them good for Nate's client or himself.
The narrator didn't have enough range for all the voices and I found it sometimes hard to work out who was meant to be talking but if you can get past that it is a good story with lots of twists. It was advertised as a legal thriller but there wasn't that much court room drama, it was more investigating, deals and manipulations.

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