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A Show of Violence (Antony Maitland, Bk 23)
A Show of Violence - Antony Maitland, Bk 23 Author:Sara Woods Antony Maitland, barrister and very confidential detective, reluctantly journeys to a gray town in the English Midlands to defend a young boy who is, on the face of it, guilty of murder and art theft. — Maitland’s problems are not reduced by the boy’s mysterious unwillingness to say anything on his own behalf beyond the baldest explan... more »ation; and as long as the boy refused to speak there was no possible line of defence. In order to save his client from what, Maitland finally realizes, will be a gross miscarriage of justice, he has to piece together the boy’s troubled past and, in the process, stumbles across a web of criminal intent in which the boy is just one victim -- and Maitland the other.« less