When the Judge dropped off his young son at The Strand Pre-School that morning, he didn’t expect to find a body in the Pre-School’s Maintenance Room. Nor to be dragged into the middle of allegations of sexual abuse of the young charges attending the pre-school. He certainly had no premonition of the immense wave of public opinion about to form, about to raise into a towering swell behind him, only to come toppling down, crashing over him, over his bride, Katy and even over little Ralphie, his five year old son, churning them in a cauldron of confusion, social stigma, hate and even violence. Upending friends and circumstances taken for granted, nearly bankrupting his law practice, and challenging the very bedrock of his marriage.

When his former lover is caught up in a national frenzy as the press and the networks rushed to judgment, condemning her for child molestation and devil worship, the Judge feels compelled to step forward to help his old friend, leading her defense in a winner-take-all jury trial, and exposing the real killer that morning, in the Maintenance Room of THE STRAND.

Inspired in part by the facts and circumstances of a real case (characters, events and story portrayed are fictional.)

You’ll Like This Book If…

• You like murder mystery novels
• You love Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach and Redondo Beach
• You’re curious about crafty legal maneuvers
• You enjoy solving crime mystery stories