THE SECOND ACQUITTAL - IMOGEN TALLCROSS

Autor: IMOGEN TALLCROSS

Editorial: IMOGEN TALLCROSS

Año: 07/10/2026

ISBN: 9780109246110

Encuadernación: Tapa blanda

Páginas: 142 pp.

Idioma: eng

EAN: 9780109246110

She won the acquittal. Eleven weeks later, her client did it again - and this time she knew exactly where the doors were.
Delia Roarke has spent twenty-one years in Boston?s criminal courts doing the hardest and least popular job in the building: making the government prove it. When a jury acquits Peter Nyland of murder, she is proud of the work. She would do it again tomorrow. Then a pharmacy technician named Beatriz Serrano gets off a night shift and does not make it home, and Nyland is arrested at four in the morning, and Delia understands that everything she is permitted to do about it amounts to nothing at all.
She cannot represent the victim. She cannot testify. She cannot hand the prosecution a single word - not now, not in eight years, not ever. Confidentiality does not expire, and it does not care what she suspects.
So she uses what she actually has. Public dockets. A private investigator paid out of her daughter?s college fund. A subpoena she cannot sign. An envelope with no return address. And, in the end, a willingness to spend her licence like currency - because the only thing she owns that is worth anything is the career she is about to destroy.
Told in cold, precise first person against the calendar of a second trial and structured around the numbered ethics violations Delia commits along the way, THE SECOND ACQUITTAL is a legal vigilante thriller for readers who want the machinery shown, not the shootout.
WHAT?S INSIDE
- A vigilante who never touches a weapon - only discovery, subpoenas, investigators, and the bar?s own disciplinary machinery
- A full criminal trial rendered start to finish: arraignment, motions in limine, empanelment, cross-examination, deadlock, verdict, sentencing
- Sixteen numbered ethics violations as chapter epigraphs, each one a step further down
- A narrator who never once claims she was right, and never once pretends she would undo it
- Victims written as people with names, jobs and futures - violence kept entirely off the page
- A disciplinary hearing that hurts more than the trial did
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