Stiletto Justice

February 15, 2018
Kim, Jayda, and Harley became close while working together for Women Helping Innocent Prisoners (WHIP), the organization Kim started after her son, a promising young athlete, was put away for a crime he didn't commit. Jayda and Harley have boyfriends and family in the same prison; all these innocent men were victims of overzealous district attorney Hammond Grey. Now Grey's running for U.S. senator in Kansas, with a symbol for a platform: a giant broom, because he's going to clean up crime in his state and then the country, when he makes his way to the White House. When the women have reason to suspect Grey is also profiting handsomely from the private prison where he sends undeserving men, they hatch a plan to expose him and free their innocent men. Although details slow the pace of King's debut, it offers clear-cut heroes and villains in a thought-provoking takedown of the $70 billion commercial-prison industry. Readers might find it's just the right time to read about women fighting injusticeand one despicable mantogether.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)