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A QUESTION OF PROOF finally allowed me to combine my professions of lawyer and writer with a story that gripped me from the first moment I began to write until I turned the final manuscript over to my publisher.
Being a lawyer and a writer, I always wanted to combine my two professions by writing a novel about a murder trial, but put it off until I could find just the right characters and plot. When I hit upon Dan Lazar, the tough, brilliant, troubled criminal-defense attorney with a background much like my own; the beautiful socialite Susan Boelter; and her arrogant, willful newspaper-publisher husband, Peter Boelter, the story that entangles them obsessed me from the moment I began writing until I turned it in to my publisher.
A QUESTION OF PROOF takes place in Philadelphia, a city with a unique history and culture that affects everyone in the book. The heart of the story is Dan's love affair with Susan that restores his happiness and then threatens it as he begins to doubt she is innocent of murdering her husband. The ending that has surprised and satisfied so many readers always seemed inevitable to me, given all that has come before.
Like parents with their children, writers love all their books, but each grips their hearts a little differently. I arranged for A QUESTION OF PROOF to be published as an ebook because I wanted it to reach many new readers in the hope they would love it as I do. Please let me know what you think.
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