num_pages: 272
description: When the prison warden's wife, Katherine Soffel, helped her inmate lover and his brother escape from prison, they were killed and she was put in jail to live the rest of her life in humiliation, yet a century later, a young writer goes in search of Katherine's diary in the hopes of finding out the whole story in an attempt to clear her name.
language: English
title: Compass in the Blood
titlecomplete: Compass in the Blood
genres: Young Adult, Mystery
ratings_count: 30
publisher: Atheneum