Matter of Trust Author:Sydney Bauer When attorney David Cavanaugh takes a distressed call from an old friend in New Jersey, he immediately offers to help. Chris Kincaid is now a US Senator and his dilemma concerns the disappearance of another member of their childhood gang Marilyn Maloney who the now-married Senator used to date. What starts as a favour to a friend soon turns i... more »nto a major murder investigation when a womans bruised and battered body is hauled from the freezing waters of the Passaic. Marilyn is dead, Chris is charged with her murder, and David faces the harrowing responsibility of defending one childhood friend accused of killing another. Buried family secrets, devastating lies and a seemingly uncatchable killer, plague David and his unlikeliest of allies the career cop, who is supposed to be working for the prosecution. Worse still, David soon discovers that proving Chris innocence is linked directly to another mistake made by someone very close to him, many years before...« less