California P.I.

Rachel Sommerville

• Publisher: NewSouth
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781742241302
• Edition: 0

Marquis is accused of involvement in the murder of a man from a rival neighborhood. Darren has been found guilty of murdering a gas station attendant. Charles has been charged with the murder of a homeless teenage girl. All three men are facing the death penalty in California. A passionate account, this book follows an Australian-born private investigator as she attempts to save these men's lives. A journey from genteel, middle-class Adelaide, Australia, to the ghettos and prisons of the United States, this is also an insider's view of the U.S. justice system and the injustices it often commits.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Author’s note
• Introduction: ‘The Alcatraz of the Rockies’
• 1. The apprentice
• 2. PI training
• 3. Asking the right question
• 4. Cruel and unusual punishment
• 5. A death penalty case
• 6. Marquis’s story
• 7. Two trials
• 8. Post-conviction work
• 9. Jurors
• 10. LWOP: Life without the possibility of parole
• Postscript
• Acknowledgements