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Colette Sheridan is being remodeled. As a San Antonio architect, she’d have vowed her career was to investigate the history and create new functions for the structures everyone else saw as eyesores. The old German farmhouse in Comfort, Texas, might be the screeching end of that dream job. The assignment seemed so ideal at the start; generous clients, a stunning location, and a pocketful of letters that were surely meant to explain the ranch’s story.

An infant’s death with evidence as high as the sky should be a slam-dunk prosecution. But what happens when the savviest defense attorney in town assists his idealistic public-defender daughter? Timely in its examination of how belief in science can be manipulated, To Tell the Truth will have you questioning your own deliberations if sitting in the juror’s box. A haunting expose of the clash between law and medicine, as written by a pediatrician with more than 40 years of clinical and trial experience with shaken baby syndrome.

In the midst of America’s crumbling culture, rife with protest marches and violence aplenty, optimistic Hillary Broome Kiffin is promoting a soon-to-open community center in downtown Sacramento. She is tunned to become the bull’s eye in an anti-gentrification movement headed by a bitter old professor, bent on doing whatever it takes to preserve his aging and historic neighborhood. In this city-life crime story, the naked truth about local politics, homelessness, and gentrification stands out in its visceral impacts.

Stepping into the darkened hospital clinic, Mackenzie (Mac) Dodd hears the faint click of a revolver before spotting the barrel pressed against the young marine’s temple. Unable to stop the suicide, Mac blames herself. Encouraged by her idealistic neighbor, she posts the incident on Silent Survivor, a blog in which she encourages veterans with PTSD to share stories.