Defending Jacob

Description:

Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. When a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: his fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student. As the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will face a trial of his own-- between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation, between a past he's tried to bury and a future he cannot conceive.

subjects: Murder,  Families,  High school students,  Fathers and sons,  Fiction,  Investigation,  Suburban life,  Public prosecutors,  Trials (Murder),  Crime, fiction,  Massachusetts, fiction,  Lawyers, fiction,  Fiction, legal,  Fiction, thrillers, general,  Large type books,  Fiction, thrillers,  nyt:mass-market-paperback=2013-03-17,  New York Times bestseller,  American literature

Places: Massachusetts