num_pages: 400
description: Fifteen years after the slaughter of a young couple in their car, leaving their three-year-old son asleep in the back seat, as the convicted killer proclaims his innocence on the eve of his execution, attorney Lou Mason is hired by the victims' teenage son to sue the murderer's supposed accomplice, a case that unleashes a series of killings aimed at the original jurors in the case. Original.
language: English
title: Deadlocked
titlecomplete: Deadlocked
genres: Crime, Suspense, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Legal Thriller, Mystery
ratings_count: 1058
series: Lou Mason Mystery
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Shamus Award
category: Best Original PI Paperback
publisher: Pinnacle Books