Adam and Rachel Lee have been married for a long time. They have a mentally disturbed and violent son, Albert, who had to be locked away in a special institution after he smashed a heavy crystal ashtray on his mother's head. Rachel has a drinking problem and is possessive about Adam with a passion that borders on insanity. Adam meets a girl, Violet, at his son's treatment facility and has an affair with her. Desperate to get out of his relationship with Rachel but unable to get a divorce, he is left with hardly any options. One day he gets Albert home, because Rachel had been insisting on it for many days, and then leaves on a supposed business trip with Violet. He retuns home to find his wife dead, murdered with a blow to her head with an expensive crystal ashtray. Did the son finally kill the mother? And what about the handsome elder Lee brother, Monty Lee, who is a lawyer and represents Adam in the subsequent murder trial? The obvious suspect is Albert, the kid with the violent disturbed past, but a disgraced junior deputy prosecutor, Leo Hewitt, digs a little deeper and discovers that this crime seems just too simple.
Who really killed Rachel Lee? Pick up the book to find the answer to that one. Yes, it is an interesting read but would not really be appropriate for all ages because of the sexual content sprinkled throughout the dark storyline.
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