Reasonable Doubt

About this book

Ex-federal prosecutor Michael Ryan has been estranged from his son Ned for three years when Ned is murdered bludgeoned to death in the private room of a Soho art gallery. His daughter-in-law wealthy socialite Jennifer Kneeland Ryan has been indicted for the crime. Jennifer insists shes innocent and begs her father-in-law to defend her. Though Ryan wants to believe shes guilty he cant turn her away. He takes the case. And as his ambivalence toward Jennifer intensifies as the painful truth about his sons life begins to emerge Ryan realizes that his own life is also on trial -- as a father as a lawyer and as a man.