TY  - BOOK
AU  - Koval,Kristin
TI  - Penitence: a novel 
SN  - 9781250342997
PY  - 2025///
CY  - New York
PB  - Celadon Books
KW  - Women lawyers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Criminal defense lawyers
KW  - Families
KW  - First loves
KW  - Fratricide
KW  - Terminally ill
KW  - Siblings
KW  - Death
KW  - Guilt
KW  - Forgiveness
KW  - Colorado
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Legal fiction (Literature)
N2  - "When their thirteen-year-old daughter Nora kills her terminally ill brother, Angie and David Sheehan struggle to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. They turn to small-town lawyer Martine Dumont for help, but Martine isn't just legal counsel--she's also the mother of Angie's ill-fated first love Julian, a successful criminal defense attorney. Martine promptly draws him into the legal battle against an overreaching district attorney determined to try Nora as an adult. As the families grapple with the lasting strain of blame and the complexities of an often unfair criminal justice system, Julian and Angie must confront their own culpability in a long-ago accident and the guilt they still carry over how their prior life together in New York City ended"--
ER  -