num_pages: 384
description: It should be an openandshut case. Canadas leading radioshow host Kevin Brace has confessed to killing his young wife. He had come to the door of his luxury condominium with his hands covered in blood and told the newspaper deliveryman: I killed her. His wifes body lay in the bathtub of their suite fatal knife wound just below the sternum. Now all that should remain is legal procedure: document the crime scene prosecute the case and be done with it. The trouble is Brace refuses to talk to anyoneincluding his own lawyerafter muttering those incriminating words. With the discovery that the victim was actually a self-destructive alcoholic the appearance of strange fingerprints at the crime scene and a revealing courtroom cross-examination the seemingly simple case begins to take on all the complexities of a hotlycontested murder trial.
language: English
title: Old City Hall
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux