Frontlist/ Backlist - Working For Justice - In this edition of Frontlist/ Backlist, we'll be looking at the first two books in a series by Robert Justice

In this edition of Frontlist/ Backlist, we'll be looking at the first two books in a series by Robert Justice. As such, the order will be reversed (Backlist/Frontlist), but I'll be sure to avoid any spoilers.

- By Amy Jones

In this edition of Frontlist/ Backlist, we'll be looking at the first two books in a series by Robert Justice. As such, the order will be reversed (Backlist/Frontlist), but I'll be sure to avoid any spoilers.

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They Can't Take Your Name by Robert Justice (Crooked Lane Books, Crime fiction, December 2021)

Synopsis: Liza Brown's father, Langston, is on death row for a crime he didn't commit. The lives of the Brown family are destroyed one Monday morning in the early 1980s when they see a news report in the Denver Post about the Mother's Day Massacre a murder-robbery at the bank where Langston is a security guard. After the initial suspect, another security guard, is acquitted on technicalities, the town needs to hold someone to account. And, since it was an inside job, Langston must be their guy-never mind that the surviving witnesses all said the perpetrator was white and Langston is Black.