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The Prosecutor's Daughter: She Grew Up Watching Him Convict Killers, Now She's Defending One
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 2 2026
Pages: 348
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A killer's confession fifteen years too late. A daughter forced to prosecute her own father's legacy.
When real estate developer Victor Lang is found bludgeoned to death in his riverside estate, the sheriff's department wastes no time naming a suspect: Daniel Marsh, a quiet groundskeeper with a blood-soaked shirt, no alibi, and a fourteen-year-old conviction for a different killing. The case looks closed before it opens.
There's just one problem. Defense attorney Claire Whitfield knows this story. Her father, the legendary prosecutor Harold Whitfield, built his entire career on convicting Daniel Marsh once already, and Claire has spent her whole life believing that conviction was just. But when Judge Solano appoints Claire to defend Marsh in this new murder trial, a devastating truth begins to surface: her father died with a private notebook confessing his own doubts, and a fifteen-year-old wrongful conviction may be about to repeat itself in real time.
As Claire digs into Victor Lang's tangled financial empire, she uncovers a secret ledger of blackmail, a small-town sheriff carrying fifteen years of guilt, a desperate accountant drowning in debt, and a county built on comfortable lies everyone agreed never to question. With the trial clock ticking and a killer still walking free, Claire must decide how far she's willing to go to save an innocent man twice in one lifetime, even if it means destroying the one thing she has left of her father: his name.
Perfect for readers who love John Grisham's courtroom intensity and Agatha Christie's masterful misdirection, THE PROSECUTOR'S DAUGHTER is a gripping legal thriller about inherited guilt, small-town corruption, and the terrifying cost of a story that makes sense but isn't true.
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