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October 15, 2008
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 | Guilty by Karen Robards | Reviewed by Harriet Klausner |  | Publisher: Putnam
http://www.us.penguingroup.com
ISBN: 0399154612
Genre: Fiction
Subgenre: Thriller
Release date: April 2008
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Price: $24.95
| Philadelphia assistant district attorney Kate White prosecutes her first case in court when, embarrassingly, her cellphone chimes. Judge Michael Moran,“the moron”, tells her to shut it off now; Kate worries her young son Ben needs her when the shots are fired by the defendant “Little” Julie Soto. Moran is dead with his head blown off, and two other prisoners join in the melee. Soto abducts Kate to allegedly use as a hostage while escaping.
Kate manages to escape, while believing she killed Soto in doing so. However she is not free; as someone stalks her and Ben, even breaking into their home. Philadelphia police detective Tom Braga leads the official investigation into the courtroom murder and its aftermath. He thinks Kate’s escape was planned by her captors and that Soto lives. As he tries to keep the single mom and her son safe, Tom begins to connect the dots leading back to 1994 Baltimore, when fifteen-year-old Katrina Kominski was part of the foster care system.
This exciting urban thriller works, because the audience believes that Kate and Ben are in deep trouble and that Tom feels a deep need to protect them from Soto and who knows who else. The storyline is fast-paced from the moment Kate’s cellphone rings a Pussycat Dolls tune and never slows down until the final biting confrontation. Karen Robards provides a strong entertaining romantic suspense. | | |
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