In the Clutches of the Wicked Author:David Carlson BAD FAITH — Sera Lacey may be a homicide detective, but when her husband, Freddie, is accused of murdering a fellow soldier-stabbing him to death outside their unit's New Mexico homecoming celebration-she needs backup. Calling in a favor, Sera asks Lieutenant Christopher Worthy of the Detroit Police Department and Father Nicholas Fortis to he... more »lp prove that her husband is innocent. But Freddie, a former POW, is to traumatized to talk, much less contradict evidence that seems cut-and-dried...
Until Worthy finds discrepancies in some of the soldiers' testimonies about the night of the murder-and their accounts of a recent disastrous mission in Afghanistan. Now he and Fortis must go up against each other's valid case theories, their own personal vulnerabilities and a secretive, protocol-bound military culture that threatens to end their investigation and let an innocent man pay the price.« less