The Disappearance — J.F. Freedman

THE SHOCKING CRIME
Emma Lancaster, the privileged fourteen-year-old daughter of a Montecito media tycoon vanishes from her bedroom in the dead of night. Eight days later, her battered body is discovered along an isolated hiking trail.

THE EXPLOSIVE TRIAL
Incriminating evidence has led to the arrest of a close family friend. It has also led defense attorney Luke Garrison to suspect something far more disturbing than an open-and-shut case of abduction and murder. As a myriad of secrets and lies unfold, as the fine line between guilt and innocence, and good and evil, is erased, a suspected killer is getting closer to his freedom. And Emma's parents are beginning to fear the worst.

They have every reason to.
Garrison is getting closer to the truth.