Crime of Privilege
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
In the tradition of John Grisham and Scott Turow, Crime of Privilege is a stunning thriller about power and corruption - and the dangerous ways they come together.
George Becket is a young lawyer, toiling away in the basement of the Cape & Islands district attorney’s office. He wasn’t born to privilege, but he’s benefited from it in ways he doesn’t like to admit.
For twelve years ago he witnessed a crime linked to one of America’s most influential families, and he – like the police and the prosecutors – chose to turn a blind eye.
Now he’s been approached by the father of a young woman murdered nine years earlier. Her death has never been explained and obvious leads never explored - leads that point in the direction of a single family ...
This time George cannot look the other way, and what begins as a search through the highly stratified layers of Cape Cod society soon has him racing from Idaho to Hawaii, Costa Rica to France to New York City.
And for George it’s not just a hunt for a killer – it’s his last chance at redemption …
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Walker's sixth legal thriller his first since 1993's The Appearance of Impropriety is a sheer pleasure to read. In March 1996, during a party at the Palm Beach, Fla., mansion of the politically connected Gregory family, George Becket discovers cousins Peter Gregory Martin and Jamie Gregory sexually violating a drunken young woman in the library. George hesitates at first, then intervenes to prevent further abuse. In March 2008, now an ADA on Cape Cod, George is still feeling guilty that he didn't step in sooner. Bill Telford, a guy he meets at a local restaurant, offers him a chance to assuage his guilt. Bill wants to know why members of the Gregory family have never been implicated in the unsolved murder of his college-age daughter, Heidi, nine years earlier. Although Bill's tenaciousness has made him a joke among lawyers and police, George is determined to crack the case. Are the Gregorys guilty, or has someone who resents their wealth and power made them targets? George must find his own moral compass, in a summer read notable for credible characters and unpredictable twists.
