The Blood Other: A Marcus Cole Novel

James Phillips is sixty-one hours from execution for the murder of his fiancée when his mother calls Marcus Cole's office on a Tuesday morning. The evidence is clear. The DNA is real. The science that explains it has been sitting in James's medical file for eleven years. Nobody looked. Marcus Cole - wrongful conviction attorney, former LAPD, working out of a small office on Figueroa Street in South Los Angeles - takes the case with the clock already running. At the center of it is a piece of forensic science most prosecutors have never heard of: microchimerism. James Phillips received a heart transplant in 1995. The blood at the crime scene is consistent with his type. The science explains why it's there. The prosecution has a confession, a motive, and a laboratory analyst who knew more than he put in his report. To save James Phillips, Marcus has sixty-one hours to prove that what the evidence says and what the evidence means are two completely different things. His associate Tomás Reyes works the suppressed evidence from the original trial. His daughter Zoe - in the office for the first time - finds the thread that holds the case together. And somewhere in Tyler, Texas, a forensic technician named Dale Pruitt is hoping nobody looks too closely at what he signed his name to eleven years ago. The Other Blood is a propulsive legal thriller about what happens when no one looks closely enough - and what it costs when someone finally does. For readers of John Grisham, Michael Connelly, and Scott Turow. The Marcus Cole Series: Book One: Twenty-Two Years Book Two: The Other Blood Book Three: What the Dead Remember Book Four: The Shape of a Thing - Coming Soon

Pagina's: 145, Paperback, Independently published