Trell by Dick Lehr

Trell by Dick Lehr

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Trell by Dick Lehr

From the co-author of Black Mass comes a gripping YA novel inspired by the true story of a young man's false imprisonment for murder -- and those who fought to free him.

On a hot summer night in the late 1980s, in the Boston neighborhood of Roxbury, a twelve-year-old African-American girl was sitting on a mailbox talking with her friends when she became the innocent victim of gang-related gunfire. Amid public outcry, an immediate manhunt was on to catch the murderer, and a young African-American man was quickly apprehended, charged, and -- wrongly -- convicted of the crime. Dick Lehr, a former reporter for the Boston Globe's famous Spotlight Team who investigated this case for the newspaper, now turns the story into Trell, a page-turning novel about the daughter of an imprisoned man who persuades a reporter and a lawyer to help her prove her father's innocence. What pieces of evidence might have been overlooked? Can they manage to get to the truth before a dangerous character from the neighborhood gets to them?

DICK LEHR is a journalism professor at Boston University and a former reporter for the Boston Globe, where he earned multiple accolades and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. He is the author of The Fence: A Police Cover-Up Along Boston's Racial Division, a Boston Globe bestseller and an Edgar Award finalist. He is also the co-author of several other books, including Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a Devil's Bargain, which was a national bestseller and won an Edgar Award. GERARD O'NEILL is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has also won numerous other national journalism prizes. He was the award-winning investigative team's editor for many years at the Boston Globe. He co-wrote Black Mass, The Underboss, and Rogues and Redeemers (Crown 2012), a political history of the Boston Irish centered on the city's most renowned mayors, with Lehr.

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EAN 9781536685565
Title Trell
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By (author) Dick Lehr
Narrator Bahni Turpin