The Best Defense: Library Edition

Kate Wilhelm returns to the marvelous milieu of Death Qualified with this page-turning legal thriller. After her recent harrowing experiences, attorney Barbara Holloway isn't looking to take on any new courtroom cases. Instead, she's happy working from a booth in a cafe in the local working-class neighborhood. But when the sister of “Baby Killer” Kennerman asks for help, Barbara reluctantly looks into matters, and finds that incompetent lawyers and a smear campaign from the local right-wing press are going to allow a killer to go free. The deeper Barbara delves into the case, the more atrocities she finds, and the more she begins to believes that the best defense may not be enough.