Grounds for Appeal

Laura Adler Public Defender takes on the appeal of a man only because he was a childhood friend. Half-believing there are no real grounds for the appeal she is shocked when strange and dangerous events threaten her own life.</p><p>The problem is many of the suspects are friends of the victim or of Laura herself: two prosecutors an attorney in private practice a photographer a scientist at the med school and Laura's client himself.</p><p>The P.D. meets a Baptist pastor who unwittingly may have the key to the victim's death and the two of them form an unlikely partnership and see the case to its surprising conclusion.