Thursday, February 7, 2013

Just Jennifer


Crime of Privilege by Walter Walker (Ballantine, May 2013)

A young woman is raped in Palm Beach after an evening of college students drinking and partying.  A young woman is killed on a golf course in Cape Cod and no one is asking too many questions.  Except George Beckett, a young attorney working for the Cape Code district attorney’s office.  Beckett feels his life since he graduated college is more than one of patronage, he often feels he is a puppet, his movements and decisions controlled by someone else.  From a modest family, George became entangled with the rich and privileged in college, not realizing that with the good life, comes consequences, but he is quickly learning he does not like to be beholden or controlled by anyone and starts searching for answers, traveling from the Cape to Idaho to Hawaii to Costa Rica to France and back to New York, tracking down people who should have answers but are now living with the consequences of their silence.  With little concern for his safety, reputation or future, George knows the only way he can live with himself is to find and reveal the truths that have escaped him, yet haunted him for most of his adult life. 

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