In Defense of Good Women

<b>This debut novel shines a light on the dark subject of infanticide when a successful female criminal defense lawyer is ordered to defend a seventeen-year-old minister's daughter charged with murder in the drowning death of her newborn child. </b> <p/><i>In Defense of Good Women</i> is the story of Victoria Stephens a successful hard-nosed criminal defense attorney appointed by the court to represent a seventeen-year-old minister's daughter charged with murder in the drowning death of her newborn child. Victoria faces a hostile community a salivating press an uncooperative client but most of all a nagging intuition that she should not be handling this case. Forced to delve into the psychology of neonaticide as she searches for a defense Victoria discovers a link between this case and her own past which once uncovered leads her beyond the boundaries of not just her profession but the law.