Defiance County
By: Jay Brandon
Publisher: Pocket Star Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780671536558
Copyright date: 1996
Description: Kelsey Thatch, an assistant DA, is sent to a remote East Texas town to prosecute an unpleasant double murder involving the town's ruling family. A suspect is in custody, and the only puzzling aspect of the apparently straightforward case is that the dead couple's baby is missing. With more self-confidence than evidence, Kelsey takes the case to trial. Not much to our surprise, the obligatory reversal in the last chapter makes us see that the defendant, his relatives, and the courts of Defiance County have been carefully manipulated by the real murderer.
Notes: "First Pocket Books paperback printing November 1997"--Title page verso.