Penitence : a Novel /
Kristin Koval.
- First edition.
- 312 pages ; 25 cm
"When their thirteen-year-old daughter Nora kills her terminally ill brother, Angie and David Sheehan struggle to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. They turn to small-town lawyer Martine Dumont for help, but Martine isn't just legal counsel-she's also the mother of Angie's ill-fated first love, Julian, a successful criminal defense attorney. Martine promptly draws him into the legal battle against an overreaching district attorney determined to try Nora as an adult."--
9781250342997
Criminal defense lawyers--Fiction. Families--Colorado--Fiction. First loves--Fiction. Fratricide--Fiction. Siblings--Fiction. Terminally ill--Fiction. Women lawyers--Fiction.