Desperate Justice - Large Print Author:Richard Speight In the novel's prologue it is suggested that this story is completely true with the exception of changed dates, names, etc. A simplified account of an emotional issue. — A 12-year old girl is abducted from her school as she waits for her brother to pick her up. Within hours her raped, strangled body is found and the murderer has confess... more »ed. He is found not guilty by reason of insanity. The mother, whose own mental state has deteriorated since the death of her daughter, shoots and kills the accused in the courtroom. The remainder of the book focuses on her trial and her attempt to understand why her daughter's murderer would have been set free.
Narrated documentary style, the author, a criminal lawyer, focuses on the pain of the principal characters.« less