A review by gilmoreguide
Sandrine's Case by Thomas H. Cook

4.0

In the early morning hours of November 15th a police officer is called to investigate a suicide in the small town of Coburn, Georgia. Sandrine Madison lies dead in her bed of an apparent drug overdose. There is no other trauma or indication of foul play but the officer gets a ‘feeling’ from the husband and that is how Samuel Madison comes to stand trial for the murder of his wife. Sandrine’s Case by Thomas H. Cook follows Madison’s trial in small town Georgia where he is a college professor, part of what the rest of the community looks at as a group of elite intellectuals living outside their values. Madison doesn’t help his situation with his stand-offish manner and two facts that will come out at trial: his wife had recently been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease and he had an affair in the year before her death. Either of these circumstances might point towards a woman who no longer wished to live but the local prosecutor unearths other details that, with Madison’s attitude, make him push for a murder trial.

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