The Last Trial (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #11)

by Scott Turow

With swamps and alligators inland, and the gated communities and shopping malls in the traffic-clotted towns along the coasts, the state seems to Stern like a giant penal colony for America’s elderly, where the residents—like characters in a famous play—have been blinded by the sun and do not realize they are actually in hell.

In the end, all guilty clients have one thing in common: At the moment of completing the crime, each was convinced against all reason they would not get caught.