Two Lost Boys
A Janet Moodie Novel
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Janet Moodie has spent years as a death row appeals attorney. Overworked and recently widowed, she’s had her fill of hopeless cases, and is determined that this will be her last. Her client is Marion ‘Andy’ Hardy, convicted along with his brother Emory of the rape and murder of two women. But Emory received a life sentence while Andy got the death penalty, labeled the ringleader despite his low IQ and Emory’s dominant personality.
Convinced that Andy’s previous lawyers missed mitigating evidence that would have kept him off death row, Janet investigates Andy’s past. She discovers a sordid and damaged upbringing, a series of errors on the part of his previous counsel, and most worrying of all, the possibility that there is far more to the murders than was first thought. Andy may be guilty, but does he deserve to die?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Veteran attorney Janet Moodie, the sympathetic lead of Robertson's promising first novel, has withdrawn to a small, isolated Sonoma County, Calif., community after the shocking and inexplicable suicide of her husband, prominent defense counsel Terrence Moran. Though Janet has decided not to handle any more death penalty cases, she accepts one after finding the lack of stress in her life boring. Her newest client, Andy Hardy, is on death row in San Quentin State Prison for murdering two prostitutes, whom he and his brother, Emory, abducted and abused. Janet has to review the record to find evidence that Andy's trial attorney didn't provide him with competent representation 15 years earlier, as well as uncover any new evidence that could lead to his sentence being commuted. Though the resolution doesn't live up to the rest of the book, Robertson, an appellate lawyer specializing in death penalty cases, does a fine job basing a legal thriller on the process of trying to mitigate a death sentence.
