Blood Perfect - Bequette, T. L.

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Résumé :
5/5 Stars. A fantastic read for fans of courtroom drama, light detective work, and endings with a twist...that will keep you interested from cover to cover. -San Francisco Book Reviews A young Joe Turner returns to defend Allston Walker, a man charged with the bloody attempted murder of a racist caretaker in this gripping courtroom thriller. Images of the vicious crime have Joe flashing back to a life-altering crime he witnessed as a child while he hurdles headlong into a steamy romance. In the tension-filled trial, the victim, a transplanted southerner, charms the jury and remains steadfast in his identification of Walker. Snarky Joe and his investigator, an aging hippie who speaks in movie lines, wrangle with slippery police officers and an obnoxious, preening prosecutor. Plot twists continue past the stunning verdict and force Joe's reckoning with his haunting past. Penned by a practicing criminal defense attorney, Blood Perfect is a uniquely authentic tale that probes the subconscious mind and depicts an unfiltered view of the modern criminal justice system....

Biographie:
T.L. Bequette is a criminal defense attorney turned writer from Lafayette, California. His Joe Turner Mysteries have won an Independent Press Award for Crime Fiction, a Chanticleer International Book Award, and a National Indie Excellence Award. Much of Bequette's law practice involves defending young men from Oakland accused of murder, so his day job provides a trove of plotlines waiting to be written. A Georgetown Law graduate, he helps coach the U.C. Berkeley School of Law's Mock Trial Team.He is, and will remain, a lifelong fan of the Oakland A's. He is also the father of twin boys, who are happy to tell you he has no insight on the subject....

Sommaire:
A criminal defense lawyer. A nearly unbeatable eyewitness case. A trial that dredges up the one crime he's never escaped. Joe Turner has built a career defending the accused in Oakland's criminal courts, but his latest case may be impossible to win. Allston Walker has been charged with the savage attempted murder of Jefferson Devaney, a racist hotel caretaker who swears Walker is the man who stabbed him. The case looks airtight: a named identification, a brutal crime scene, and a sympathetic victim the jury is bound to trust. Still, Joe takes the case. As he and his offbeat investigator dig into the evidence, Joe finds himself battling slippery police work, a smug prosecutor, and a trial that refuses to go where it should. At the same time, the violence of the case awakens buried memories of the unsolved murder that shattered Joe's own childhood-forcing him to confront a past he has spent years outrunning. Then the twists begin. Sharp, funny, and deeply authentic, Blood Perfect is a gripping courtroom thriller about misidentification, trauma, obsession, and the dangerous gap between truth and what a jury is prepared to believe. 5/5 Stars. A fantastic read for fans of courtroom drama, light detective work, and endings with a twist...that will keep you interested from cover to cover. -San Francisco Book Reviews...