Wilde Lake is a knockout (Stephen King) " Intriguing premise stunning reveal irresistible read" (Val Mc Dermid) " Wilde Lake is a standout novel an intelligent emotional satisfying mystery that explores huge themes in small-town microcosm in the manner of To Kill A Mockingbird the inspiration on which it reflects" (Alex Marwood) " Wilde Lake is engrossing suspenseful & substantial" (Scott Turow Luisa) Lu' Brant is the newly elected
- & first female
- state's attorney of Howard County Maryland a job in which her revered father famously served Fiercely intelligent & ambitious she sees an opportunity to make her name by trying a mentally disturbed drifter accused of beating a woman to death in her home As Lu prepares for the trial the case dredges up painful memories reminding her small but tight-knit family of the night when her brother AJ saved his best friend at the cost of another man's life Only eighteen AJ was cleared by a grand jury Now Lu wonders if the events of 1980 happened as she remembers them What details might have been withheld from her when she was a child? The more she learns about the case the more questions arise Propelled into the past she discovers that the legal system the bedrock of her entire life does not have all the answers & that the truth might be a dangerous thing to learn