02139cam a2200445 i 4500 1895792414 TxAuBib 20250128120000.0 240607t20252024||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024022945 9781250342997 hardcover 1250342996 hardcover (OCoLC)1429665357 TxAuBib rda Koval, Kristin, author. Penitence : a novel / Kristin Koval. First edition. New York : Celadon Books, 2025. ©2024. 312 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "When their thirteen-year-old daughter Nora kills her terminally ill brother, Angie and David Sheehan struggle to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. They turn to small-town lawyer Martine Dumont for help, but Martine isn't just legal counsel--she's also the mother of Angie's ill-fated first love Julian, a successful criminal defense attorney. Martine promptly draws him into the legal battle against an overreaching district attorney determined to try Nora as an adult. As the families grapple with the lasting strain of blame and the complexities of an often unfair criminal justice system, Julian and Angie must confront their own culpability in a long-ago accident and the guilt they still carry over how their prior life together in New York City ended"-- Provided by publisher. 20250128. Women lawyers Fiction. Criminal defense lawyers Fiction. Families Fiction. First loves Fiction. Fratricide Fiction. Terminally ill Fiction. Siblings Fiction. Siblings Death Fiction. Guilt Fiction. Forgiveness Fiction. Colorado Fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) lcgft Legal fiction (Literature.) TXAAL