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Working for Justice

In this edition of Frontlist/Backlist, we’ll be looking at the first two books in a series by Robert Justice. As such, the order will be reversed (Backlist/Frontlist), but I’ll be sure to avoid any spoilers.

Backlist

They Can’t Take Your Name by Robert Justice

(Crooked Lane Books, Crime fiction, December 2021)

Liza Brown’s father, Langston, is on death row for a crime he didn’t commit. The lives of the Brown family are destroyed one Monday morning in the early 1980s when they see a news report in the about the Mother’s

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