The Fire This Time: Selected as a featured 'snowflake in a blizzard,' week of December 7, 2020.
Welcome to my web site. Thank you for visiting. We are all enduring hardship and grief from the Covid-19 pandemic. Mental health professionals advise that occasional distractions can contribute to positive mental health and emotional stability. Reading a good book is one of those distractions. I hope my novel and web site will provide you with a few moments of distraction.
“The Fire This Time is a vivid, harrowing portrait of 20th-century Boston in all its brutal tribal schisms, made deadly by old secrets, old lies, and old hatreds . . . a fascinating trip.”
Joseph Finder, The New York Times Best Selling novelist
The Fire This Time
Every criminal defense attorney wants justice for his or her client especially if that client did not commit the heinous crime for which he will stand trial. Maddie Devlin, a public defender, is no different. To obtain justice for her client, she must overcome the ‘Perry Mason Curse.’ Poking holes in the prosecution’s case will not result in an acquittal. Only producing the killer will. To do this, she must put her life on the line without knowing if her gambit will succeed. Even if she survives, she may not be able to produce the killer. This is the dilemma Devlin confronts in defending her client.
A more detailed description of the novel is available here.
The opening sections of the novel are available here.