num_pages: 415
description: Presumed Guilty is a dramatic courtroom thriller set in the new Russia, where a young American gets framed for murder and caught up in a ruthless legal system. A system where the phrase "beyond a reasonable doubt" works against her. A system where there is no jury. All of which add up to a nightmare that will make her wish she had never returned to Moscow.When Laura Fitzpatrick was bundled out of the Russian captial, a frightened and abused seven-year-old , she had refused to believe the "official" explanation of her American mother's "accidental" death. Years later Lara is a prosecutor with the San Francisco district attorney's office when she receives the photograph of a brutally murdered woman. Somebody wants her back in the city that holds the key to her mother's death. Travelling to Moscow, Lara soon finds herself alone in a cold, dark city, where she quickly becomes the target of a psychopath's sexual obsession.The events surrounding her mother's death are buried in files nobody wants Lara to see, but her passions are ignited by Yuri, a tough homicide detective, while Alexei, the boldest of the New Russian Rich, introduces her to the life of the wealthy and famous. The two men become her only hope when her attempts to prove her mother was murdered end up getting Lara charged with murder herself. And in Russia's legal system, she is presumed guilty the moment she is detained.
language: English
title: Presumed Guilty
titlecomplete: Presumed Guilty
genres: Mystery
ratings_count: 37
publisher: Forge