Moment of Truth
Authors: Lisa Scottoline
To my mother and brother
Jack Newlin had no choice but to frame himself for…
Mary DiNunzio smoothed a strand of dark blond hair into…
Paige Newlin had finally stopped crying and snuggled against the…
The interview room in the basement of the Roundhouse was…
When a homicide as big as Honor Newlin’s happens in…
Detective Reginald Brinkley stood alone in Two Squad’s coffee room,…
Mary stepped out of the elevator onto the tenth floor…
Brinkley got out of the Chrysler and scanned the scene…
After Mary had delivered Paige to her father, she went…
It was late at night when Mary grabbed the C…
“I attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Yale, and…”
It was early the next morning when Mary returned to…
Davis hit the
STOP
button to end the videotape of…
The press mobbed the Criminal Justice Center. News vans, cameramen,…
Located in the basement of the Criminal Justice Center, the…
On the way back to the office, Mary took a…
Jack paced in his holding cell, waiting to use the…
“Ms. DiNunzio,” Brinkley said, standing beside Kovich, “before you lay…”
Mary and Judy stayed with Paige, lingering in her apartment…
Brinkley stood beside the stainless steel table with Kovich and…
Mary glanced around the cavernous warehouse, as large a space…
“Thank God,” Jack said, hoarse by the time a guard…
The lab at the Roundhouse was busy, the criminalists bright-eyed…
Mary sat on a frigid park bench behind Ray-Bans, on…
Dwight Davis had gotten a job offer from the law…
“Follow that cab!” Mary told the cabbie and couldn’t help…
Lou, in an old black gypsy cab, trailed Paige’s Yellow…
Kovich studied the criminalistics report, resting it against the steering…
Davis knew who Marc Videon was the moment he entered…
“Trevor’s gone,” Mary said, bursting into the conference room, cluttered…
It had taken all day for Jack to be transferred…
THE DEVIL
’
S INN
, read the boxy white sign. It was…
Davis surveyed Jack Newlin’s spacious, well-appointed office, on the top…
Mary, Judy, and Lou walked through the first floor of…
Mary sat opposite Jack in the tiny interview room, not…
Brinkley didn’t touch the newspaper Captain Walsh threw across the…
“I need some answers about your father’s case, Paige,” Mary…
Jack regained consciousness, lying alone in a small cell. Unlike…
“Miss DiNunzio, what happened at the prison?” “Miss DiNunzio, why…”
“The next matter is
Commonwealth v. Newlin
,” the court crier…
There were worse things than being suspended, Brinkley was finding…
Mary and Paige entered Captain Walsh’s office, which was surprisingly…
Jack left prison in a cab, feeling strange in the…
“It’s you!” Mary said, amazed. She took one look at…
Mary sat behind the conference room table like a judge…
Davis was at the office working on his laptop, outlining…
Cold air blasted Mary and Paige the moment they pushed…
Jack and Brinkley rushed into the lobby of the office…
It wasn’t long before three squad cars arrived at the…
Davis, still in running clothes, stared open-mouthed at the TV…
“Oh Deo! Oh Deo
!” Vita DiNunzio sobbed. She reached for…
Jack approached the glistening skyscraper that housed Tribe & Wright…
Mary peeked through the wired window of the interview room…
It was early morning when Mary hit the sidewalk outside…
Mary dropped her briefcase in surprise at the sight. “Is…”
The morning stayed clear and brisk, and Mary flowed with…
Mary felt Captain Walsh grip her arm and steer her…
Atheists never feel completely comfortable in church, and Mary was…
“Hello,” said the short man standing on the threshold of…
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