A review by jennievh
The Best Defense by Kate Wilhelm

5.0

Another excellent Barbara Holloway. A woman is accused of setting fire to the house her daughter was in. Amidst crowd cries of "Baby killer!", Barbara takes on the case, meandering down a lot of freaky peoples' scary, dark pasts, to find the real truth of what happened. There is much more to the stern, radical right newspaper publisher and his Stepford wife, and what is up with the gun-crazy neighbor? Keeps you guessing right up to the end. Or it did me, in any case.