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Six Days to Acquittal: A Defense Attorney's Last Case Might Also Be Her Last Mistake
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 11 2026
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
She has six days to save an innocent woman. Or six days to free a killer.
Margot Sinclair has spent twenty-six years defending the guilty and the desperate, building a reputation as the most formidable defense attorney in Castellane, and she was one case away from retirement when the phone rang. Julian Cross, the billionaire founder of Meridian Biogenics, is dead. His wife, Delphine, is under arrest. The gun is hers. The apartment was locked. And she is asking for Margot by name.
What begins as an open-and-shut case unravels into something far more dangerous with every passing day of trial. A missing corporate ledger. A disgraced CFO with a fortune's worth of secrets. A detective forced to bury his own best lead. A founding law partner with more to protect than his client's freedom. And a six-day countdown to a verdict that could end one woman's life, or expose a fraud large enough to bring down a company, a marriage, and possibly the firm bearing Margot's own name.
This gripping legal thriller unfolds like a locked-room mystery inside a courtroom drama, propelled by the same slow-burning suspense that fans of Agatha Christie's puzzle-box plotting and John Grisham's courtroom pacing have long searched for. Every chapter peels back another layer of a conspiracy built on corporate greed, a hidden affair, and a truth someone worked very hard to bury, until the final page delivers a twist that will make readers question everything they thought they understood about justice, doubt, and the price of a perfect defense.
Told with the psychological tension of a domestic suspense novel and the procedural precision of a true courtroom thriller, Six Days to Acquittal asks the question every great crime novel eventually must: what happens when the lawyer built to protect the innocent becomes the last person standing between a killer and freedom?
Fans of character-driven legal thrillers, strong female protagonists, and shocking twist endings will devour this suspenseful murder mystery from cover to cover. Perfect for readers who loved courtroom dramas built on reasonable doubt, corporate conspiracy thrillers exposing corruption at the highest levels, and psychological crime fiction where the most dangerous person in the room is never who you expect.
Six days. One verdict. A truth no one was ready for.
Pick up Six Days to Acquittal today and discover why readers are calling it an unputdownable legal thriller with an ending you won't see coming, the kind of nail-biting, page-turning mystery that redefines what a last case really means.
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