Beyond All Reasonable Doubt
A Novel
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2.6 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A “knockout legal thriller” about one woman’s conflicted efforts to overturn what may be a wrongful conviction—from the award-winning author of Quicksand (Washington Post).
“A courtroom drama that will make you question every testimony.” —Refinery29
I'm giving you a chance to achieve every lawyer’s dream, said Sophia Weber’s old professor. Freeing an innocent man.
Thirteen years ago, a 15-year-old girl was murdered. Doctor Stig Ahlin was sentenced to life in prison. But no one has forgotten the brutal crime. Ahlin is known as one of the most ruthless criminals.
When Sophia Weber discovers critical flaws in the murder investigation, she decides to help Ahlin. But Sophia doing her utmost to get her client exonerated arouses many people’s disgust. And the more she learns, the more difficult her job becomes. What kind of man is her client really? What has he done? And will she ever know the truth?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this searing legal thriller from Giolito (Quicksand), law professor Hans Segerstad persuades Stockholm defense attorney Sophia Weber, a former student, to try to prove the innocence of Stig Ahlin, a medical researcher. Ahlin was convicted 13 years earlier in 1998 for the murder of 15-year-old Katrin Bj rk, whose body was found by police in her parents' house after responding to neighbors' complaints about the girl's barking dog. Giotti builds tension by alternating between Sophia's search for evidence to free Ahlin and flashbacks to the original police investigation. Allegations that Ahlin molested his own daughter complicate Sophia's efforts to get a retrial. This meticulously crafted novel proves Segerstad's bitterly ironic claim made at the time he asks Sophia to take on the case: "How could Stig Ahlin be innocent? Our police always tell the truth, our prosecutors are never careless, and the opinions of our judges never fail. Everything is perfect in our country." Fans of Nordic noir won't want to miss this one.
