Blood Perfect

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A criminal defense lawyer. A nearly unbeatable eyewitness case. A trial that dredges up the one crime he's never escaped.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Joe Turner has built a career defending the accused in Oakland's criminal courts but his latest case may be impossible to win.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Allston Walker has been charged with the savage attempted murder of Jefferson Devaney a racist hotel caretaker who swears Walker is the man who stabbed him. The case looks airtight: a named identification a brutal crime scene and a sympathetic victim the jury is bound to trust. Still Joe takes the case.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>As he and his offbeat investigator dig into the evidence Joe finds himself battling slippery police work a smug prosecutor and a trial that refuses to go where it should. At the same time the violence of the case awakens buried memories of the unsolved murder that shattered Joe's own childhood-forcing him to confront a past he has spent years outrunning. Then the twists begin.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Sharp funny and deeply authentic </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Blood Perfect</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is a gripping courtroom thriller about misidentification trauma obsession and the dangerous gap between truth and what a jury is prepared to believe.</span></p><p><strong>5/5 Stars. A fantastic read for fans of courtroom drama light detective work and endings with a twist...that will keep you interested from cover to cover. -<em>San Francisco Book Reviews</em></strong></p>