The Guilty Plea

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Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen. With "The Guilty Plea," a gripping sequel to the international bestseller "Old City Hall," Robert Rotenberg has delivered another sharp, suspenseful legal thriller with an explosive conclusion. On the morning his high-profile divorce trial is set to begin, Terrance Wyler, the youngest son of Toronto's Wyler Food dynasty, is found stabbed to death in the kitchen of his luxurious home. Detective Ari Greene arrives minutes before the press and finds Wyler's four-year-old son asleep upstairs. Hours later, when Wyler's wife, Samantha, shows up at her lawyer's office with a bloody knife wrapped in a towel, the case looks like a straightforward guilty plea. Instead, an open-and-shut case becomes a complex murder trial, full of spite and uncertainty. There's April Goodling, the Hollywood starlet with whom Terrance had a well-publicized dalliance, and Brandon Legacy, the teenage neighbor who was with Samantha the night of the murder. After a series of devastating cross-examinations, there's no telling where the jury's sympathies will lie. As in "Old City Hall," Rotenberg's gift for twists and turns is always astonishing, but his true star remains the courtroom: the tension, disclosures, and machinations that drive this trial straight to its unpredictable verdict. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9a063d6f-7773-4693-8296-f76f1a2cc55d

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Having worked in magazines, film and radio, Robert Rotenberg then established his own criminal law practice. He lives in Toronto with his wife, a television producer at CBC News, their three children and dog. Both his acclaimed thrillers, OLD CITY HALL and THE GUILTY PLEA are published by John Murray.