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Book Review of Trial by Fire

Trial by Fire
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Brilliant, hard-driving Stella Cataloni is the start of the Dallas District Attorney's office, with a amazing 100 percent conviction rate. But the conviction she most desperately wants eludes her. The fire that years also killed her parents and scarred her life remains unsolved. When her ex-boyfriend Tom Randall, who Stella is convinced set the fire, suddenly reappears in Houseton, Stella vows revenge.

But when Randall is brutally murdered, his death puts the arson case in a new light and give Houston DA Holly Oppenheimer the ruthless opportunity to put Stella behind bars for both crimes. Stella's key hope of proving her innocense is to do what the police cannot or will not do: find the killer who has mocked the law not once but twice.