Laura Caldwell, author of the Izzy McNeil Red Hot series, brings readers another whirlwind thriller with her latest book, Long Way Home. But this suspense filled story isn’t fiction, its Caldwell’s gripping account of being in the middle of a trial for a man wrongly accused and imprisoned. She takes readers inside the minds of the man killed, the man accused and the women who went with their gut intuition and fought to save him from being failed by the system.
A simple question led Caldwell into the case that would change her life. While doing research for a fiction story, she wondered: “Could someone truly be forced into confessing to a crime of which they were entirely innocent?”
A preview of the Long Way Home answers this inquisition: “I asked Catherine O'Daniel, a lawyer I didn't know well but whom I'd heard had a reputation as an exceptional criminal defense attorney. She told me the story of Jovan Mosley, the first pro bono client she had ever taken in her stellar career. Jovan had been nineteen, she said, a good kid in a bad neighborhood when he was convinced to say he'd been part of the fight he had only witnessed--a fight that later led to the death of a fifty-one-year-old man. As a result, Jovan was charged with death penalty murder and put in a county holding cell where he would spend nearly six years without a trial, waiting to defend his innocence.”
Within a year, Caldwell would find herself alongside O'Daniel representing Mosley on charges of first degree murder. At stake was the life of Jovan Mosley, because if they lost, the man they had grown to respect and care for would vanish. Long Way Home is a beautifully written, captivating and heartbreaking retelling of the events that led to the trial.
Caldwell fearlessly recounts the road she traveled, takes readers into the heart of the injustices that surrounded Mosley and provides a behind the scenes look at what really shakes down during a murder trial. Long Way Home shines a spotlight on a system that fights to be just, but can’t always evade corruption, and gives readers the ride of their lives in the process.
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