Freddy Builder is certain he is meant for more. More than his life in corporate American bondage. Meant for more, meant for better, and lacking only, only an occasion to rise to.

And now that occasion is murder – of Mindi Quintana, an old college flame wanting simply to stay in his past.

A televised trial for Freddy is in the offing. His crime is major news from the start. Mindi is the beautiful daughter of a renowned Philadelphia businessman whose dramatic fall a few years back captivated the city.

Meanwhile, Freddy is writing the book about his relationship with Mindi everybody wants. It’s a lying rewrite of her life and his own, and of their miserably thin involvement.

Coverage goes national as excerpts of Freddy’s book are published to acclaim. He rises to the occasion with articulate, sympathetic jailhouse interviews, and publishes ghostwritten articles on prison issues.

A new celebrity murderer is taking the stage – a killer with a book, a jailhouse literary sensation.

Freddy’s defense attorney, Philip, watches in disgust as his client builds his fame with the bones of his victim. A career public defender, Philip thought he’d seen evil in all its incarnations. He’d lost his outrage, his passion for the law, and his marriage along the way. But Freddy’s case is a turning point – the public’s sympathy for the poet-murderer, the societal rebel, the killer as greater soul, stirs something dormant inside.

To stop Freddy, and to vindicate Mindi, Philip will have to violate his oath, even break the law. But with the help of Mindi’s best friend, Lisa, he might give Mindi back the truth of her life and death. And perhaps deliver a comeuppance – to a killer with a book.

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