Fox Is Framed
Apr 2015 · The Leo Maxwell Mysteries Book 3 · Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
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From an award-winning author, a crime thriller with "some of the sharpest courtroom cut-and-thrust since Presumed Innocent" ( Kirkus Reviews).
The Maxwell brothers both became lawyers, following in their father's footsteps. But their father, Lawrence, had his career come to a screeching halt over two decades ago—when he was convicted of killing his wife.
Now, faced with evidence of stunning prosecutorial misconduct, a San Francisco judge has ordered a new trial for Lawrence. Soon after, a prison snitch and potential key witness turns up dead, and Lawrence's son, Leo, finds himself trying to defend his father against murder charges both old and new—and confronting the darkness at the center of his own life, as he struggles to do right by both the law and his blood.
From the author of Bear Is Broken, which won the Shamus Award and was a Kirkus Reviews best book of the year, this novel in the Leo Maxwell series is "a sharp-edged legal thriller with the deep emotional undertones of family drama and tragedy" ( New York Times–bestselling author Reed Farrel Coleman).
"Superlative . . . Smith is masterly in creating realistic courtroom scenes, including the subtleties of witness examination." — Publishers Weekly, starred review
"The line Maxwell family members walk between innocence and guilt becomes more blurred with every step and turn of the page." — Library Journal, starred review
The Maxwell brothers both became lawyers, following in their father's footsteps. But their father, Lawrence, had his career come to a screeching halt over two decades ago—when he was convicted of killing his wife.
Now, faced with evidence of stunning prosecutorial misconduct, a San Francisco judge has ordered a new trial for Lawrence. Soon after, a prison snitch and potential key witness turns up dead, and Lawrence's son, Leo, finds himself trying to defend his father against murder charges both old and new—and confronting the darkness at the center of his own life, as he struggles to do right by both the law and his blood.
From the author of Bear Is Broken, which won the Shamus Award and was a Kirkus Reviews best book of the year, this novel in the Leo Maxwell series is "a sharp-edged legal thriller with the deep emotional undertones of family drama and tragedy" ( New York Times–bestselling author Reed Farrel Coleman).
"Superlative . . . Smith is masterly in creating realistic courtroom scenes, including the subtleties of witness examination." — Publishers Weekly, starred review
"The line Maxwell family members walk between innocence and guilt becomes more blurred with every step and turn of the page." — Library Journal, starred review
From an award-winning author, a crime thriller with "some of the sharpest courtroom cut-and-thrust since Presumed Innocent" ( Kirkus Reviews).
The Maxwell brothers both became lawyers, following in their father's footsteps. But their father, Lawrence, had his career come to a screeching halt ov...
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About the author
Lachlan Smith was a Richard Scowcroft Fellow in the Stegner Program at Stanford and received an MFA from Cornell. He has written three previous books in the Leo Maxwell Mystery series: Bear Is Broken, which won the 2014 Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel, Lion Plays Rough, and Fox Is Framed. Smith's fiction has also appeared in the Best New American Voices series. In addition to writing novels, he is an attorney practicing in the area of civil rights and employment law. He lives in Alabama.
Lachlan Smith was a Richard Scowcroft Fellow in the Stegner Program at Stanford and received an MFA from Cornell. He has written three previous books in the Leo Maxwell Mystery series: Bear Is Broken, which won the 2014 Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel, Lion Plays Rough, and Fox Is Framed. Sm...
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