Officer of the Court — Lelia Kelly

When a powerful software entrepreneur is brutally slain, it appears as if Atlanta Assistant District Attorney Laura Chastain is looking at an open-and-shut capital punishment case. The savagely battered corpse was discovered in the victim's own car trunk, with career criminal Roland Jervis at the wheel. Infuriated by the opposing counsel's ineptitude, Laura begins to review the evidence against Jervis--and uncovers gaping holes. Stunned, she begins to suspect something other than a random car jacking gone bad--and someone other than the defendant whose fate now hangs precariously in the balance.

Baffled by forensic clues and eyewitness accounts that don't add up, Laura follows a murky trail that appears to be leading to the most unlikely of places: the upper echelon of the Atlanta police department. Now she must decide whether to forge ahead with the prosecution of a possibly innocent man--or to take a radical step that could be her last....