Do You Solemnly Swear?
A Nation of Law, The Dark Side
Lin Wilder embroils characters in another complex web of dysfunctional family, deceit, revenge and the politics of courtrooms in this sequel. Pulitzer Prize reporter Kate Townsend’s front page story for her newspaper, The Houston Tribune, about a juror–the foreman of McAllister’s jury–stepping forward to speak about the case and her concern about why McAllister was not granted a retrial galvanizes Houstonians once again: Had a Houston jury convicted another innocent person?