Innocence by David Hosp

This is what the author writes in the Afterword and I quote a section of it:

"... the premise of Innocence has its roots in fact and experience.  Over the past ten years, nearly two hundred individuals in the United States have had their convictions vacated after DNA testing established that they were innocent of the crimes for which they had been convicted and imprisoned.  


David Hosp, the author, is a trial lawyer at the Boston-based law firm of Goodwin Proctor, LLP.  For the past two years, he has worked with a team of attorneys representing Stephan Cowans in civil lawsuits resulting from Mr Cowans's 1997 wrongful conviction for the shooting and attempted murder of a Boston police officer.  Mr Cowans was exonerated and released in 2004 through the work of attorneys and staff at the New England Innocence Project ("NEIP")."

So, from the above, you can roughly guess where this story is heading.  Briefly, attorney Scott Finn fights for doctor and illegal immigrant Vincente Salazar who was convicted of a brutal attack on a female undercover cop fifteen years ago.  Salazar has already been incarcerated for fifteen years when Finn meets with him and takes him on as a client pro bono.  In Finn, Salazar finds support in his claim for a new trial to set aside the jury conviction in his case.  Allying himself with retired detective/investigator Tom Kozlowski, Finn uncovers a web of deception and corruption that stretches from Central America to Boston's suburbs as they search desperately for the thin line between guilt and innocence.

Innocence is the second book in the Scott Finn series published in 2007.  After a dubious read on the first book, Dark Harbour (2005), I have come to love this series and highly recommend it to anyone who loves a good legal thriller on the scale of Grisham.  

Rating:  5/5