WEIGHING THE TRUTH. A NOVEL - Tecno-Libro

in Weighing the Truth , a character-driven legal suspense novel, 32-year-old attorney Natalya Drummond struggles with significant challenges in her life a demanding job representing criminals in their felony appeals, crushing grief over the sudden death of her husband, and the difficulties of raising a young child on her own. The novel opens as Natalya travels with her slacker colleague Rick Cropper to visit their death-row client Jared Hegner at San Quentin prison. .Hegner claims he s innocent and is furious that his appeal is moving too slowly. When his two lawyers inform him that the most he can hope for is to have the death penalty reduced to a life sentence, Hegner becomes even more enraged and threatens Nat and Rick, boasting that he has gang connections on the outside. Bizarre and disturbing incidents follow, leading Nat to believe Hegner s purported gang members are responsible, especially when she becomes the victim of a traumatic att