HATE CRIME

HATE CRIME
William Bernhardt

Bestselling American author William Bernhardt is a master at blending psychological suspense with gripping, surprise-filled legal action. The mystery begins with the violent beating of a gay man that apparently escalated to murder. Two young men are arrested for the crime; during their trial, one of the defendants is shot dead in the courtroom by a member of a gay activist group. Surprisingly this thrilling courtroom drama is staged from the angle of the remaining accused’s attorney, who faces an explosion of controversy and deadly violence. A good read with a well-paced plot full of courtroom fireworks and double-crosses, weaving the hate crime of the title together with an Oklahoma kidnapping, another grisly unsolved murder, a detective gone bad, and a Christian social organisation that opposes homosexuality above all else.

414 pages,paperback