Trell (2017)
Juvenile Fiction / Law & Crime, - Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States / General, - Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / General, - Young Adult Fiction / Careers, Occupations, Internships, - Young Adult Fiction / Family / Parents, - Young Adult Fiction / Law & Crime, - Juvenile Fiction / General -
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Dick Lehr
Overview
<b>From the co-author of <i>Black Mass </i>comes a gripping YA novel inspired by the true story of a young man's false imprisonment for murder </b>— <b>and those who fought to free him.</b><br><br>On a hot summer night in the late 1980s, in the Boston neighborhood of Roxbury, a twelve-year-old African-American girl was sitting on a mailbox talking with her friends when she became the innocent victim of gang-related gunfire. Amid public outcry, an immediate manhunt was on to catch the murderer, and a young African-American man was quickly apprehended, charged, and — wrongly — convicted of the crime. Dick Lehr, a former reporter for the <i>Boston Globe</i>’s famous Spotlight Team who investigated this case for the newspaper, now turns the story into <i>Trell,</i> a page-turning novel about the daughter of an imprisoned man who persuades a reporter and a lawyer to help her prove her father’s innocence. What pieces of evidence might have been overlooked? Can they manage to get to the truth before a dangerous character from the neighborhood gets to them?