Small Paperback, As New Condition, 2006, 325 pages, ISBN 0 451 41212 5

Trial By Fire – D. W. Buffa

Even brilliant defense attorney Joseph Antonelli os no match for the sensation-hungry media. They’ve already convicted his new client, law professor Julian Sinclair, in the stabbing murder of his alleged lover, attorney Daphne McMillan. The case has everything: illicit sex, fabulous wealth, a high-profile killer, and a gorgeous victim. And when Sinclair is sentenced to life imprisonment, Antonelli believes his client is the case’s second victim. To prove he’s right, he has to smoke the real killer out of hiding in an obsessive quest for the truth. What he discovers will challenge everything he knows about murder, justice, celebrity, and the high price of innocence.