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In the Defendant's Chair

par Lynn Yvonne Moon

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Imagine kissing your children goodnight and tucking them into their beds during a cold and bitter storm. You're filled with excitement over the anticipation of spending a romantic evening with your husband nestled in his warm embrace beside a warm fire. As you fall asleep, you feel your love and devotion for him; the father of your children. But when you awake, you're not greeted by the pitter-patter of tiny feet, but bright lights and loud voices. You're confused, dizzy, and sick. You reach for the television remote to turn down the noise but touch the hard reality of a cold table. Suddenly you realize where you are; in a courtroom. You scream for you husband of six years to protect you, but the only response is the yelling of many strange voices about the comatose baby killer who's suddenly awake. This is the nightmare and reality of Early Sutton. Early's eyes focus on a young man who has both excitement and horror on his face and who's demanding answers. A judge is banging her gravel and demanding order. With no memory other than making love to her husband, Early's devastated to learn that her husband and children were brutally murdered over three months ago. But deep inside, Early knows that they are alive somewhere. Early's young attorney soon discovers that other women across America are waking up accused of murdering their entire families and they too, have no memory. With the help of The Agency, Early's answers are slowly answered as her world is absorbed into a corrupt government conspiracy that centers around the hidden experimentation of the human genome. Miss Carrie Clark and Maddie Edwards reunite to solve the mysterious murders that's plaguing America. With the assistance of The Agency, both women risk their lives as they travel from coast to coast gathering clues and piecing together a strange puzzle where the pieces don't seem to fit. The Agency - In The Defendant's Chair examines the inner working of our US Government and a secret society as they manipulate the human genome in evil seclusion. In a race against time to save the human race, the women must contemplate both the ethical and moral issues of genetic tampering."… (plus d'informations)

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If you just read the prologue without knowing the genre, you would think you’d found your way into a love story, but not just any love story. This is family love and is profound between Early and her husband, Alex Sutton, and their three children. She checks on the children; they’re sound asleep. She walks back to where her husband has started a nice cozy fire in the fireplace and they make love in front of the fire. The very next experience for Early is being in a defendant’s chair months later. She has no recollection after she and Alex fell asleep that night. Her rookie trial lawyer, Drake Anderson, is pleading her case; she’s been accused of murdering her husband and children. Drake eventually discovers that Early is not the only woman on defense for similar crimes. All of them have had a lapse in time; all of them are confused and disoriented.

There are alternate stories and far more characters than just that of Early Sutton, and the reader wonders throughout much of the book how it will all pull together; yet it does. There is devastation in West Virginia; an explosion just outside the small town of Prestonia and people investigating the hospital that used to be there. There are multiple doctors and agencies protecting huge secrets. There are children born deformed, yet this is an intentional consequence of the experimental genetic cross breeding in laboratories of humans and animals.

This novel is an eye opener of what may happen when agencies mock the laws against genetic experimentation that are designed to protect us. The prologue and first chapter really pulled me in. This was not just a legal thriller as I thought it was. In fact, I felt the story had a bit too much going on and many characters to follow. The chapters were short, going back and forth between several scenes rather rapidly. I didn’t quite follow the inference of why the women were found guilty of murdering their families. Other than the description of the victims, there was no portrayal of the state of mind of Early and the other women at their respective crime scenes, and so I wondered why they weren’t also considered victims. The topic of this fictional account is fascinating. The reader may finish the book, but they won’t soon forget the story. I rated the novel at 3 out of 5. (

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Imagine kissing your children goodnight and tucking them into their beds during a cold and bitter storm. You're filled with excitement over the anticipation of spending a romantic evening with your husband nestled in his warm embrace beside a warm fire. As you fall asleep, you feel your love and devotion for him; the father of your children. But when you awake, you're not greeted by the pitter-patter of tiny feet, but bright lights and loud voices. You're confused, dizzy, and sick. You reach for the television remote to turn down the noise but touch the hard reality of a cold table. Suddenly you realize where you are; in a courtroom. You scream for you husband of six years to protect you, but the only response is the yelling of many strange voices about the comatose baby killer who's suddenly awake. This is the nightmare and reality of Early Sutton. Early's eyes focus on a young man who has both excitement and horror on his face and who's demanding answers. A judge is banging her gravel and demanding order. With no memory other than making love to her husband, Early's devastated to learn that her husband and children were brutally murdered over three months ago. But deep inside, Early knows that they are alive somewhere. Early's young attorney soon discovers that other women across America are waking up accused of murdering their entire families and they too, have no memory. With the help of The Agency, Early's answers are slowly answered as her world is absorbed into a corrupt government conspiracy that centers around the hidden experimentation of the human genome. Miss Carrie Clark and Maddie Edwards reunite to solve the mysterious murders that's plaguing America. With the assistance of The Agency, both women risk their lives as they travel from coast to coast gathering clues and piecing together a strange puzzle where the pieces don't seem to fit. The Agency - In The Defendant's Chair examines the inner working of our US Government and a secret society as they manipulate the human genome in evil seclusion. In a race against time to save the human race, the women must contemplate both the ethical and moral issues of genetic tampering."

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