num_pages: 416
description: Frank O'Connell's need to live on the edge cost him his family, his home, and a partnership in his father-in-law's prestigious D.C. firm. Then Ashley Bronson walks into his life. The murder of a former cabinet official has just propelled her from the society column to the front page, and, inexplicably, she wants Frank to defend her. Frank thinks his biggest challenge is defending a client against the prosecution's overwhelming evidence. He's got a lot to learn. Subsumed in a defense in which ethics are bent and morals compromised, a desperate Frank hits upon an inspired strategy -- and unwittingly becomes a dangerous threat to people in high places -- a threat that must be stopped no matter what the cost. Confronted by forces they don't understand, besieged lawyer and client have only each other as the courtroom battle begins....
language: English
title: In Her Defense
titlecomplete: In Her Defense
genres: Adventure, Thriller, Fiction, Legal Thriller, Mystery
ratings_count: 287
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Barry Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: HarperTorch