From the dust jacket- Savagely attacked as she was asleep on her sofa, Natalie Antonetti's skull was shattered. Bizarrely, she was able to move about her apartment, changed clothes and tried to speak to her son but words never came. Two weeks later she died.
The only lead was a neighbor who described seeing a shadowy figure wielding a child's baseball bat an hour prior to the attack. Despite a wide search and questioning suspects, police were unable to find anyone who matched the description and the trail grew cold.
Then, out o f the blue, a tip revived the case. With no eyewitness, no DNA, no fingerprints and witnesses who refused to testify, former journalist and rookie prosecutor Mark Pryor committed to delivering justice for Natalie's family. This, his first homicide case, would require him to be a sleuth, investigator and prosecutor.
Review- An interesting cold case and an in-depth look into the process of prosecuting of a murder case, a must read for true crime fans who want to get a behind the scenes look at a prosecutors office. This book starts that the beginning of the case long before Pryor came to be involved in it. The reader sees what happened from eyewitness, police reports, and newspapers. Pryor walks the reader through the case, then through the prosecution, and to the verdict. At times this can be a bit of a slog to get through when the reader gets to the trail part because Pryor did not skip any part of it but it does give the reader insight into what a real court case with a judge and jury is like, slow and methodical. The case itself is very interesting and twisty to follow, I would like Pryor to write more about his time as a prosecutor and what other forgotten cases he worked on.
I give this book a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this book from my local library.
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