Nineteen minutes
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Originally published: New York : Atria Books, 2007.

In the aftermath of a small-town school shooting, lawyer Jordan McAfee finds himself defending a youth who desperately needs someone on his side, while detective Patrick Ducharme works with the primary witness--the daughter of the judge assigned to the case.

Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens -- until the day its complacency is shattered by an act of violence. Josie Cormier, the teenage daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's best witness, but she can't remember what happened before her very own eyes -- or can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show -- destroying the closest of friendships and families.