TURNING ANGEL

Brilliance Audio, Grand Haven, MI, 2005.  ISBN 1-59600-878-4 / 978-1-59600-878-6.  Very good; 5 used CDs with an approx. playing time of 6 hours, all play well; some wear to box.  Read by Dick Hill.  ‘… introduces Drew Elliott, the highly respected doctor who saved Penn’s life in a hiking accident when they were boys.  Drew and Penn sit on the school board of their alma mater, St. Stephen’s Prep.  When the nude body of a young female student is found, the entire community is shocked – but no one more than Penn, who discovers that his best friend was entangled in a passionate relationship with the girl and may be accused of her murder.  When Drew begs Penn to defend him, Penn allows his sense of obligation to override his instinct and agrees.  Yet before he can begin, both men are drawn into a web of blackmail and violence.  More dangerous yet is Shad Johnson, the black district attorney whose dream is to send a rich white man to death row in Mississippi.  It is Penn’s journey into the heart of his alma mater that … he finds that the intersection of the adult and nearly adult worlds is a dangerous place indeed.’ (from rear box)