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The innocence game
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- ISBN: 9780804120517 (electronic audio bk.)
- ISBN: 080412051X (electronic audio bk.)
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1 online resource (1 sound file) - Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
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| General Note: | "This is a Borzoi book." Electronic audio file. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Robbie Daymond. |
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| Subject: | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction |
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- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2013 May #1
Journalist and documentarian Harvey is known for his race-the-clock thrillers starring Chicago private eye Michael Kelly (e.g., The Chicago Way, 2007, and The Third Rail, 2010). This time he offers a stand-alone thriller, still set in Chicago and environs but starring an unlikely trio of journalism grad students. Three students are enrolled in the Medill School of Journalism's Innocence Seminar. This program has received a great deal of both positive and negative press (in the real world) for having students, guided by a professor, work to exonerate wrongly convicted death-row inmates. Harvey doesn't mention the controversy surrounding the program, which seems odd since his mystery is set in the present. The students choose their own case, a 14-year-old cold case in which a young boy was murdered. On their visit to the forest-preserve crime scene, they stumble upon another young boy's body. The trio's pursuit of both cases is sometimes intriguing but more often improbable. For Harvey fans. Copyright 2012 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2013 April #2
The pursuers nearly upstage the pursued in this thriller about the brutal serial killings of young boys. Although series protagonist PI Michael Kelly does a cameo in this latest from Chicago noir scribe Harvey, the author turns his attention to three eager journalism grad students--and the reader readily follows along. The trio--Ian Joyce (narrator), Sarah Gold and Jake Havens--enroll at Medill School of Journalism in a seminar devoted to wrongful convictions, a class that has led to the release of many unjustly imprisoned persons. The students tackle the tough case of James Harrison, convicted 14 years ago for the brutal killing of Skyler Wingate, a 10-year-old boy. Testing of blood on the convicted man's jeans perfectly matched the victim's DNA. Harrison went to prison, where he was murdered. Now, at Havens' door, someone drops a note bearing the original case number and one sentence: "I KILT THE BOY." Then, near the scene of the original crime, the students find the body of another youth, the gruesome details of his killing echoing Wingate's murder. However well-worn, the serial-killer plot works here, first since Harvey keeps throwing tough obstacles in the investigative journalists' paths. In unsettling scenes, thuggish Windy City police thwart and threaten, determined to keep the kids off the case. But what really propels the narrative are the tense dynamics among its three protagonists. Why is aggressive, sometimes violent Havens so obsessed with the case? What message comes in a letter a lawyer hands to shy Joyce in a prologue? Will Joyce and Gold kindle an affair? Or is she already involved with Havens? In a wily and surprising wrap-up, Harvey links both plotlines, leaving only one question unanswered: Is this the first of a spinoff series? At fade-out, narrator Joyce says the case was "...the beginning of whatever was to come." Do the math. Not as tricky and gritty as Harvey's Kelly cases, but the appealing kids at the book's center pick up the slack and leave us wanting more. Copyright Kirkus 2013 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved. - LJ Express Reviews : LJ Express Reviews
Three bright, ambitious, and naive journalism students enrolled in the exclusive "innocence graduate seminar" struggle to clear the name of a seemingly innocent man convicted of the murder of a young boy. Even though the crime occurred 14 years ago and the accused was killed in prison, Ian, Sarah, and Jake pursue the case, but someone with connections in the police department attempts to stop their investigation. Robbie Daymond and Robertson Dean do an excellent job reading the book. Their voices are very different, and the change in reader is disconcerting at first, but listeners will get used to it. Both readers keep the suspense and excitement level high. Verdict Recommended for fans of legal thrillers and those interested in the pursuits of organizations such as the Innocence Project.âIlka Gordon, Aaron Garber Lib., Cleveland (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2013 March #3
In this ambitious stand-alone from Harvey (The Chicago Way and three other Mike Kelly PI novels), three Northwestern journalist studentsâIan Joyce, Jake Havens, and Sarah Goldâenroll in a special course that requires them to investigate cases that strongly suggest the accused were wrongfully convicted. One case concerns the murder of 10-year-old Skylar Wingate. The man convicted of the crime has long since died, but new evidence supports the theory that the real killer is still alive. On a visit to the site where Skylar was found buried, the three students discover the body of another boy in a cave. When their search for the killer brings them into contact with the corrupt underbelly of the Chicago police, they realize they must solve the crimeânot only for the sake of justice but to save their own lives. Although Harvey makes some far-fetched connections in the wrap-up, the suspense remains high throughout. Author tour. Agent: David Gernert, the Gernert Company. (May)
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