Defending Jacob

William Landay

Thorndike Press, 2012 - Fiction - 627 pages

Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student.
Every parental instinct Andy has rallies to protect his boy. Jacob insists that he is innocent, and Andy believes him. Andy must. He's his father. But as damning facts and shocking revelations surface, as a marriage threatens to crumble and the trial intensifies, as the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will face a trial of his own--between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation, between a past he's tried to bury and a future he cannot conceive.
Award-winning author William Landay has written the consummate novel of an embattled family in crisis--a suspenseful, character-driven mystery that is also a spellbinding tale of guilt, betrayal, and the terrifying speed at which our lives can spin out of control.

What people are saying

Review: Defending Jacob

User Review  - Sally Pardee - Goodreads

Fast read and a real page turner. I was sad when it was done because it was fun to read and it was that kind of book for me where I couldn't wait to find time to pick up my kindle. My only wish is ...

Review: Defending Jacob

User Review  - Nancy - Goodreads

This book was awesome. It made you really stop and think how this could affect your family. I thought I knew how it would end and I was really surprised at how it did end. I would highly recommend this book.

About the author

William Landay is an American novelist who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1963. He is a graduate of Yale University and Boston College Law School. Prior to becoming a writer, he served for eight years as an Assistant District Attorney in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Landay is the author of the New York Times bestseller Defending Jacob. His previous novels are Mission Flats, which won the Dagger Award as best debut crime novel of 2003, and The Strangler, which was an L.A. Times favorite crime novel and was nominated for the Strand Magazine Critics Award as best crime novel of 2007.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Defending Jacob; Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series
• Author: William Landay
• Edition: reprint, large print
• Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2012
• ISBN: 1410446948, 9781410446947
• Length: 627 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Crime; Fiction / Legal; Fiction / Psychological; Fiction / Thrillers / General; Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense