![]() I was startled and a bit disappointed by the similarity between this and the only other book I've read by Jodi Picoult (the excellent "Small Great Things") - ballsy female lawyer rides to the rescue of sympathetic potential victim of rough justice, who subsequently defies said ballsy lawyer in order to shoot herself in the foot, legally speaking, on a point of principle. And as she unravels a tangled murder case, Ellie also looks deep within-to confront her own fears and desires when a man from her past reenters her life. ![]() Delving deep inside the world of those who live "plain," Ellie must find a way to reach Katie on her terms. When Ellie Hathaway, a disillusioned big-city attorney, comes to Paradise, Pennsylvania, to defend Katie, two cultures collide-and for the first time in her high-profile career, Ellie faces a system of justice very different from her own. ![]() But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that eighteen-year-old Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn's mother, took the child's life. The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. ![]() ![]() From the bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper comes the riveting story of a murder that shatters the picturesque calm of Amish country-and tests the heart and soul of the lawyer defending the woman at the center of the storm. ![]()
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