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Burning Justice

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If you love legal thrillers, you will enjoy this book. Wonderfully written. Kept you in suspense and wanting to get to the end to figure it out!

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Fabulous thriller that kept me eagerly turning the pages!! Fantastic characters and plot, could not put it down.

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Full of suspense and tension. It will grip you from beginning to end. Well told. A definite must read. Pick this up and enjoy. Happy reading!

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Attorney Dani Trumball works with the Help Innocent Prisoners Project, defending cases of the wrongfully convicted.

Twenty years ago Becky Whitlow was convicted of setting her house on fire, killing her three sleeping children. She had been drinking that night, but she swears she did not set that fire. Fire Marshall and experts testify that an accelerant was used and it was clearly arson.

Dani will do whatever it takes to free Becky of prison and restore her innocence. Getting justice in this case may test not only Dani’s legal talents but also the limits of her own heart. Dani will do whatever it takes to free Becky of prison and restore her innocence.

This was quite an emotional roller coaster of a read. I couldn't help but feel sorry for Becky and rooted for Dani to make it right. Up and down ... hope and disappointment... time and time again.

It's a well written legal thriller with a riveting plot, and skillfully drawn characters. Dani is particularly credible in her heroic struggle, not only in saving the life of a wrongfully accused woman, but also as the wife of a man facing his own demons and the mother of two young children.

Many thanks to the author / Yankee Clipper Press / Independent Book Publishers Association / Netgalley for the digital copy of this heart-wrenching legal thriller. Read and reviewed voluntarily, opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.

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Attorney Dani Trumball is tested to her limits as she takes on injustice defending a client wrongly convicted of a horrific crime. Burning Justice is an intelligent, engrossing read with vivid characters and a story that one will not soon forget.

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I have been an enthusiastic reader of the Help Innocent Prisoners Project series since they first started. I always enjoyed what I call quality procedural mysteries since they are far more than simple whodunits, but also give you insights as to the way our legal process works. For this book, I was fortunate enough to obtain an advance copy hence the early review.

This is a fabulous book. Taken from real events, the plot grabs you early on, and I found it difficult to put down. This author seems to have a real passion to expose the way our legal system sometimes breaks down allowing for miscarriages of justice, sometimes with profound consequences. This particular story has many logical but shocking plot tricks. I finished this novel three weeks ago and I still find myself thinking about it. It certainly should be a strong book club choice and even a mini-series.

I'm reluctant to write directly of the plot because I think i would be doing future readers a disservice in revealing any of the plot changes. Suffice to say it is a lot more than a whodunit. it is a brisk, passionate, informative suspense and mystery novel that most readers will be thinking about long after finishing the story. I love this entire series, but I do consider this the best of them.

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Dani Trumball, senior attorney with the Help Innocent Prisoners Project (HIPP), takes on a case of a young mother sentenced to death for the arson murder of her three young children in Texas. While fighting the case, she and her family make the move to California where her husband, Doug, has been hired as the Dean of Stanford Law School. The amount of work that Dani along with her investigator Tommy put in to the case is overwhelming, but are they fighting an uphill battle? When an unexpected illness affects her family, how much more can Dani handle? With all of the emotion I felt while reading this book, I was disappointed in the ending. I received an advance review copy at no cost and without obligation for an honest review. (by paytonpuppy)

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Be prepared for an emotional ride from Marti Green that shows flaws in a justice system that at times has no ethics nor morals and becomes more stubborn.even when logic and facts are presented time after time.
A most informative and sometimes disturbing. well written story that I can highly recommend.
An independent review thanks to NetGalley

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Well written fiction loosely based on a true story. This was a page-Turner for me because the clues kept coming.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing a copy of this book to read and review. The opinions expressed here are my own.

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I was very happy to get this new book by Marti Green as I have read all of her other books. This one was just as enjoyable going through the legal process with Dani Trumball. I have always loved Dani's stories and root for her to save innocent lives. This book however, caught me very off guard as the ending was not what I expected for the prisoner nor Dani. Having read all the Dani Trumball books I have found a draw to her and her family.

Over all this is a very good read and well written. All the characters are likable. The only reason I just could not give this a 5 star is I would have liked a different ending and I would have liked more involvement with Tommy, Dani's side kick.

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This is the 6th book in the Help Innocent Prisoners Project series and we see Dani and her family settling into their new life in California. It isn't long before Dani is persuaded to take the heartbreaking case of a mother who has been on death row for 20 years accused of setting fire to her home and killing her three young children. While reading this book I found myself going through a wide range of emotions from sympathy and sorrow to rage and frustration. It was a compelling read that I would recommend highly.

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Loved the way the legal experts ducked and dived, and came out convicting the right people in the end. The author kept me entertained from begin to the end. Frightening that life can be held so lightly
A brilliant and enthralling read, and can't wait to read more by this author.

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Once again the author dips her pen into the defense of those wrongly accused. She does and an excellent job of build empathy for the convicted and the lawyer whose heart is for those serving time for things they didn’t do.

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Burning Justice by Marti Green, Green has written a compelling and enthralling book. A woman on death row for killing her children thru arson may be innocent, and the story takes us thru the ups and downs of her life and case as well as those of her innocence lawyer.

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