Kathleen Kositzky

I read this book because of the true life case that’s going on right now in Delphi, Indiana. There, It appears that more than one person has taken/assigned responsibility for the heinous crime. Also, the accused defense lawyers are fighting like crazy. I’ve been saying this case is more suspenseful with more twists and turns than a Grisham novel. Then I found this book. This book centered around a false confession, given by somebody through police interrogation that crossed the line. Grisham is a fantastic writer but this book in my view should’ve been cut in half. It spent entirely too long going over Mundane details that I simply could not make myself be interested in. But Grisham being Grisham I did finish the book which says a lot considering how long it is. It was clearly an anti-death penalty diatribe also. Again, I felt this was way over done and actually counterproductive to his apparent cause. It was quite obvious that he purposely portrayed the victim’s family in a very bad light and the falsely accused family in a much better light. If he would’ve spared us all of the extra time it took to read this book, I might have been more sympathetic to his cause. I wish he would’ve spent more time going over details of confessions, how they were obtained, how this one was obtained wrongly, etc. I felt that given that was the hinge of the book It should’ve deserved a little bit more time. Everything else got way way more time. Was grateful for this book showing up at this time. He is helpful discussing a lot of the legal details of these types of cases. To me this book could have a lot of parallels to the Delphi case if the accused’s confession turns out to be coerced and false. This book highlights the possibility of this happening.