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An innocent man is scheduled to die the day before his son’s wedding. His alibi witness has disappeared.
For thirty years, Brendan Murphy has done the impossible. He has kept his client, Professor Edward Wynne Carter, III, alive on Virginia’s Death Row. Three juries have convicted Ed of murdering his pregnant wife in 1983, but Ed continues to insist that the real killer is Allison Byrd, the law student who stalked him relentlessly and whose lies convicted him. Now Ed’s execution is set for the day before his son Wynne’s marriage to Claire Chastain.
McKenzie Fitzgerald, a name partner in Hugh Mahoney’s San Diego law firm, learns of Ed’s impending execution on the day that she also learns she has been nominated to the United States Supreme Court. As a young lawyer, she failed to preserve evidence of Ed’s innocence. But McKenzie’s career will be destroyed if she reveals her mistake.
Claire enlists Jeff Ryder to help her find the real killer. But when Claire is kidnaped on her wedding day, and Brendan has a heart attack, Jeff becomes responsible for saving Claire and Ed in the face of mounting evidence that Ed had both motive and opportunity to kill his wife.
Is Ed really innocent? Can Jeff save Ed and Claire? Will McKenzie choose Ed’s life or her career?
Keeping Secrets is the third standalone novel in the riveting Warrick-Thompson Files series.
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