Suspicion of Vengeance
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Publisher Description
Attorney Gail Connor is out to save a wrongly convicted man from execution in this "thought-provoking mystery" from the New York Times–bestselling author (Publishers Weekly).
No one in the quiet coastal town of Stuart, Florida, can forget what happened twelve years ago. Notorious local Kenny Ray Clark brutally murdered a young wife and mother, and was righteously sentenced to death for the crime.
But Kenny's grandmother, Gail's former housekeeper, won't believe it. So she goes to the only person who can help get her grandson off death row. It doesn't take Gail—or her fiancé, fellow attorney Anthony Quintana—long to see that the entire case was built on quicksand.
The problem is that there are some very powerful people who don't want Kenny to go free. They want to keep the past buried. And if Gail doesn't watch her step, they'll bury her right along with it.
This sixth in the bestselling Suspicion series, authored by an Edgar Award finalist and former Florida state prosecutor, guarantees that "once readers are pulled in by the intricate plot . . . they won't want to skip a word" (Publishers Weekly).
Suspicion of Vengeance is the 6th book in the Suspicion series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Once readers are pulled in by the intricate plot of Parker's eighth Gail Connor/Anthony Quintana legal thriller (after Suspicion of Innocence), they won't want to skip a word. The premise is simple enough: Gail is asked to take on the case of an old family friend's grandson, Kenny Ray Clark, who was convicted of the stabbing death of a housewife over a decade earlier, indirectly causing the death of her infant son. Now, after 11 years on death row, his appeals are about to run out. Anthony, Gail's on-again, off-again fianc , himself a high-powered Florida attorney, warns her of the futility of trying to save Clark. But Gail digs into the records and finds, among other things, a drunk defense attorney, a bogus confession and a witness who would have provided an alibi but was threatened by police. At the same time, she discovers skeletons in her own family's closet that seem to be linked to Clark's case, as well as a crooked real estate deal and some unsavory individuals who don't want her getting involved. With help from Anthony and her cousin Jackie, an idealistic young cop, she races to expose the flaws in the state's case and challenges the bureaucratic "conveyor belt" mentality of the death penalty. If Parker has an ax to grind here, it is the legal system's determination to put judicial procedure and the public's thirst for vengeance ahead of the sanctity of human life. She is a former prosecutor who knows her way around the system; her characters are complex and believable, all of which makes this multifaceted and thought-provoking mystery one of the better ones this year.
