When George was in college, he was lucky (unlucky) enough to have a roommate who ran with a prestigious Massachusetts political family. He and the roommate went to a party in Palm Springs where a young woman was raped. George had always regretted that he didn't do more to stop it and then didn't stand up as a witness when the girl pressed charges. In payment for his silence, he has a job as a ADA in Cape Cod. When the father of a girl who had been viciously murdered and left on a golf course years before corners him, George is put on a path to find the truth. Can he expect someone to stand up as a witness when he didn't in similar circumstances?
There's a reason all of this sounds familiar. The author goes to great pains to tell us that this is fiction, but the setting, characters and crime are very close to the Martha Moxley/Edward Skakel murder case and the William Kennedy Smith rape case. Even if you've read A Season in Purgatory by Dominick Dunne which deals with the same murder case, this is worth your time.
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