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Defending Jacob by William Landay
3.0
"It turns out, you can get used to most anything. What one day seems a shocking, unbearable outrage over time comes to seem ordinary, unremarkable."
Andy Barber is an assistant District Attorney and has been for the last twenty years in his affluent suburb of Boston in Massachusetts. When a 14-yr-old boy is murdered in the community tiny ripples become huge waves as Andy's own son becomes the lead suspect. What lengths would you go to to protect your son and your family?
Dubbed as a legal thriller, this novel is just as much a character study into the family Barber. The dynamics of shock and grief juxtapose with the fear of the past coming to haunt and the terrifying journey of struggling with wondering if the son you raised might be a monster. Moderate pace, disturbing and suspenseful-you will not soon forget the Barber family and the very public journey they embark here.
Read-alikes: Scott Turow, We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver.
Andy Barber is an assistant District Attorney and has been for the last twenty years in his affluent suburb of Boston in Massachusetts. When a 14-yr-old boy is murdered in the community tiny ripples become huge waves as Andy's own son becomes the lead suspect. What lengths would you go to to protect your son and your family?
Dubbed as a legal thriller, this novel is just as much a character study into the family Barber. The dynamics of shock and grief juxtapose with the fear of the past coming to haunt and the terrifying journey of struggling with wondering if the son you raised might be a monster. Moderate pace, disturbing and suspenseful-you will not soon forget the Barber family and the very public journey they embark here.
Read-alikes: Scott Turow, We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver.