ASIN: B0089F5UEE
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 300
From the author of The Widow's Son - a Kirkus Starred Review Literary Mystery: Which is right: the eyewitness testimony of an eight-year-old boy or exculpatory DNA evidence? Sixteen years after Richard Hill testified in court that he crouched under the kitchen tablecloth and saw Henry Clayton rape his white momma and murder her and his black poppa, a DNA swab earns the prisoner a pardon and his freedom. Returning to Red River Falls, Clayton claims that he has been reborn and offers to help Hill, now a patrol officer, identify who really killed his parents. Hill, who relives the family horrors every day, doesn't believe him. But how can he prove DNA evidence wrong? An ingrained distrust of everyone except Doria, the aunt who raised him, has led Hill to distance himself from his squad-car partner Jack Harter, and his mixed parentage has alienated him from members of both races. When he ...
