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Attorney Laura Chastain has earned a reputation within legal circles for brutal honesty and truth. Her current client, a white Atlanta police Detective Jeff Williams, has been accused of killing a suspected black rapist he had in custody. Jeff has no alibi, but believes that he is being set up by his fellow officers who used the short time he left the victim alone to kill the man. Laura has doubts that Jeff has been honest with her. However, assuming he did not do it, than another officer had to have done the crime, most likely to keep the victim's mouth shut. Laura investigates Corey's background and soon learns that he was selling guns to children, who turn the weapon in as part of the "toys for guns" program. This could only mean that corruption exists at the highest levels of the Atlanta police force want Jeff to quietly take the fall. PRESUMPTION OF GUILT is an awesome debut legal procedural tale. Laura is a fabulous new character, and the arousing, story line is cleverly built around official corruption, cover-up, and ultimately the abuse of power. Like Rosenberg and Grisham have been to the nineties, presumtuous as it may sound, Lelia Kelly has the talent to be one of the sub-genre's new stars in the twenty-first century. Harriet Klausner
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