num_pages: 421
description: Award-winning author William Landay has written the consummate novel of an embattled family in crisis - a suspenseful character-driven mystery that is also a spellbinding tale of guilt betrayal and the terrifying speed at which our lives can spin out of control.Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community tenacious in the courtroom and happy at home with his wife Laurie and son Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student.
language: English
title: Defending Jacob
publisher: Delacorte Press