The Perfect Witness: A Novel

They used to be partners—Greg Monarch and Ira Sullivan, a couple of do-good lawyers in central California. But it all went bad for Ira. Bad enough that he wakes up in jail one day staring at a death sentence for murder. Only Greg Monarch has a prayer of getting him off—if he's willing to cross certain ethical lines.

Layer by layer, Greg peels back a tissue of lies—and at the rotten core he comes to Sandy Polson. Sandy says she was with Ira the night of the murder, says she saw the whole thin...