amalyndb's review against another edition
4.0
This one was twisty. A young black man is on death row, railroaded into a confession of a murder he did not commit, without the body of the young white woman, daughter of rich academics, ever having been found.
Sharon is brought on to investigate, as one of the lawyers at the cooperative takes on his appeal.
Strong personalities abound as Sharon tries to piece together what happened nearly two years prior and discovers the young woman was manipulating others to gather material for her comedy routines.
Well-written and an excellent reminder of the amount of work that was put into locating information (and still is when newspapers haven't been digitized) pre-Internet - the search for a specific edition of a two year old newspaper being an example, but also trying to track people down. Rather than feeling dated, the stories are strong, and references, like that to the bankruptcy of an answering service due to the growing popularity of answering machines, give insight into the time period, having myself been born in the early 80s.
Sharon is brought on to investigate, as one of the lawyers at the cooperative takes on his appeal.
Strong personalities abound as Sharon tries to piece together what happened nearly two years prior and discovers the young woman was manipulating others to gather material for her comedy routines.
Well-written and an excellent reminder of the amount of work that was put into locating information (and still is when newspapers haven't been digitized) pre-Internet - the search for a specific edition of a two year old newspaper being an example, but also trying to track people down. Rather than feeling dated, the stories are strong, and references, like that to the bankruptcy of an answering service due to the growing popularity of answering machines, give insight into the time period, having myself been born in the early 80s.
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