Judgment Calls (Samantha Kincaid Mysteries)

Judgment Calls (Samantha Kincaid Mysteries) by Burke, Alafair. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780312997205.

After three years on the job in Portlands Drug and Vice Division, Deputy DA Samantha Kincaid gets what she wants: her first case with the Major Crimes Team. Kendra Martin, a 13-year-old runaway, has been found drugged, viciously assaulted, and left for dead in the Columbia River Gorge. Despite pressures to kick the case to assault, Samantha goes for attempted murder. Unfortunately the girls story isnt gelling. Then again, neither is the alibi of the suspect she IDd, a low-life who insists hes innocent. One thing is certain. Kendra knows the streets better than Vice-and Samanthas following her down every last one of them to crack the case. But the road to the truth is more dangerous than Samantha dreamed, leading to an earlier death-penalty conviction, a teenage prostitution ring, and threats to Samanthas own life. When the possibility of a serial killer enters the fray, it sends Samanthas trial into a tailspin, and tests her judgment-in both her professional and personal life-to the very death.