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melissa_who_reads 's review for:
Pride v. Prejudice
by Joan Hess
Fun. Needed something light after We Were Liars, and this fit the bill. Good summer vacation reading.
After being humiliated by a prosecutor when called for jury duty, Claire decides to prove the defendant innocent of the crime she's supposed to have committed -- and she goes on trial in less than a week. The defendant, Sarah, is not charming and seems to have many secrets that she's unwilling to share -- even though she claims she did not murder her unloving and unloved husband. The evidence points her way: no body can fault the investigators, however incompetent they may have been, with not following where the facts lead them.
The solution, when it finally arrives after another murder and after Claire finds herself on the lam from the FBI with an escaped prisoner (she's also on the lam from the horror of meeting her mother-in-law), does seem to come out of left field -- but the pieces were there, even if they didn't quite make an entire puzzle.
Enjoyed it.
After being humiliated by a prosecutor when called for jury duty, Claire decides to prove the defendant innocent of the crime she's supposed to have committed -- and she goes on trial in less than a week. The defendant, Sarah, is not charming and seems to have many secrets that she's unwilling to share -- even though she claims she did not murder her unloving and unloved husband. The evidence points her way: no body can fault the investigators, however incompetent they may have been, with not following where the facts lead them.
The solution, when it finally arrives after another murder and after Claire finds herself on the lam from the FBI with an escaped prisoner (she's also on the lam from the horror of meeting her mother-in-law), does seem to come out of left field -- but the pieces were there, even if they didn't quite make an entire puzzle.
Enjoyed it.