So Tony is constantly running into figures from his tainted past-Alison's bereaved parents, the fence-straddling teacher who'd refused him a college recommendation-now recast in painful new roles that prevent Tony from trying the murder of Marcie Calder without investigating the murder of Alison Taylor. Even more unnervingly, however, nobody seems to have left Lake City for the past 27 years except for Tony and the dead. The evidence is as damning as you'd expect: Sam was carrying on a heated affair with Marcie, who was pregnant with his child and refused an abortion.
Sam, currently the track coach at Lake City High, has been accused of murdering Marcie Calder, one of his star athletes. Now a desperate call from Sue Robb brings Tony back to Lake City. Despite the efforts of the Lake City police and the hatred of everyone in town-only Sam and his girlfriend, Sue Cash, stood by him-Tony was never charged with the murder, and eventually escaped to Harvard Law, a movie-star wife, and a son who's the age Alison was when she died. But all that changed when class president Alison Taylor was raped and strangled minutes after saying good-night to Tony. A generation ago, Anthony Lord and Sam Robb thought the defining moment of their high-school careers would be when one of them was named Athlete of the Year. A successful San Francisco lawyer returns to Lake City, Ohio, to defend a childhood friend on murder charges-and to confront the townsfolk who are convinced that the lawyer himself is a killer.
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