Publisher's Synopsis
Often the worst monsters live right next door. Often they go undetected because they seem so much like everyone else. And, for the most part, they are. Or they are very good at pretending to be. No one is a villain in his own mind. There are always reasons, excuses, justifications. It's the middle of the night in the small northern Minnesota town of LaBrette when John Hoffman received word that his daughter has been arrested for murder. He rushes to the police station where his friend, Sheriff Vern Esch is sympathetic to his distress but firm in his insistence that fifteen-year-old Lily is the obvious suspect. John hires defense attorney Delphine Charpentier and together they begin an investigation that seems, at first, to be leading nowhere. Until it leads to a monster, doing a very good job of pretending to be like everyone else.
