New York: St Martin's, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A legal thriller featuring a defense attorney who has left his law practice to build a cabin in the Adirondack woods and live in semi-retirement, but as the only attorney in the area qualified to defend to take on a death penalty case, he is assigned the case of a young man, charitably described as "slow", who has confessed to brutally murdering his grandparents with whom he lived. The more he researches the case, the greater his doubts of his client's guilt. The NY Times noted "A grave and thoughtful novel presents us with a hideous crime...and asks us to consider the terrible consequences." SIGNED on the title page. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-312198833.