Publisher's Synopsis
The Crime is remarkably heinous: veteran police detective Joe McNaughton is found savagely slain, mutilated, and hung from a public fountain in downtown Tulsa. Scrawled across his chest in blood is the word Faithless. The accused is a tabloid reporter's dream: stunning, nineteen-year-old Keri Dalcanton, a stripper involved in a kinky affair with the married McNaughton...and now cast by media, police and public alike as a vengeful woman scomed. Powerful circumstantial evidence and the prosecution's deftly orchestrated attacks on the defendant's character have Ben Kincaid's client all but convicted - until a major technical blunder by overzealous cops overturns the case and sets Keri Dalcanton free. Amid a firestorm of outrage, Ben maintains his client's innocence. But angry comrades of the victim are convinced otherwise - and vow to see 'justice' done, by any means necessary, When a police raid on his office uncovers the blood-stained murder weapon, Ben gets a first hand taste of the infamous Blue Squeeze. And as a new trial of Keri Dalcanton is launched, Ben faces his own day in court, charged with conspiracy and murder.;What follows is a breathlessly twisting battle of legal wits - and lethal surprises - in which no holds are barred, no secrets are left unexposed, and, ultimately, nothing is what it seems. In Murder One, best-selling author William Bernhardt thrusts idealistic Tulsa, Oklahoma, attorney Ben Kincaid into the most controversial courtroom challenge of his carrer...an explosive murder case that Kincaid will confront not only as a lawyer - but as a defendant.
