The Rule of Silence

Описание

Chicago criminal defense attorney Kate Malloy has built her career on a simple principle: the facts don’t lie. So when she’s assigned to defend Marcus Webb — a bartender charged with the murder of investigative journalist Rachel Mays — she expects a routine case. The evidence is damning. The prosecution is confident. The jury will be easy.

Then she notices something no one else has bothered to look for. Marcus Webb is right-handed. The fingerprints on the victim’s throat are from the left.

What begins as a single inconsistency unravels into something far more dangerous. Rachel Mays wasn’t killed for who she was — she was killed for what she knew. Her unfinished investigation points to a powerful financial group operating in the shadows, with connections that reach deep into the city’s legal and political establishment. The closer Kate gets to the truth, the more systematically her career is dismantled: an anonymous bar complaint filed overnight, a key witness who suddenly can’t be found, a partner who quietly suggests she let this one go.

Kate Malloy doesn’t let things go.

The Rule of Silence is a taut, atmospheric legal thriller that moves with precision through the corridors of Chicago’s criminal justice system — from county jail intake rooms to oak-paneled offices where silence is the most expensive thing money can buy.

For readers of Scott Turow, John Grisham, and Lisa Scottoline.