Review: Great premis with realistic legal base!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 12, 2012
If you've ever read a popular mystery with lawyers and courtscenes and said 'but lawyers don't do those kinds of things', or 'the courts don't work that way in real life', here's the book for you!!The premis of this book is also a real possibility in the baseball world.  If a pitcher intentionally retaliated by hitting a batter on the other team, and that pitch hits the batter on the head, resulting in his death, is the pitcher guilty of murder?  Does his 'intention' to actually hurt the batter matter in the court of public opinion---how about in the court of law!!Both the defense and the prosecution are ethical, reasonable, personable people in this book of difficult situations.  Families, friends, and fans on both sides of the issue end up complicating the situation for all parties involved in this story. As a reader, you'll be drawn into the fray with wavering options of your own.  But what really sets this book aside as a really good read is that fiction does not go beyond bounds that are just not possible in the real world.  Sympathies may draw you to one side or the other, but the legal arguments definitely stand on their own.A fun book to ponder for any fan of baseball !  Great to have arguments too,  that go beyond just the emotional.  But don't get me wrong here, this author definitely adds that element within the story, with the central characters as they are going through the inditement and trial stages!  A great new look at the legal mystery genre!