\n \nA New York Times best thriller of the year!\n \nMatters culminate in a courtroom fireworks display worthy of Perry Mason in his prime. The Murder Rule holds one's interest from its cheeky opening pages through its final scene. --Wall Street Journal\n \nFor fans of the compulsive psychological suspense of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a mother daughter story--one running from a horrible truth, and the other fighting to reveal it--that twists and turns in shocking ways, from the internationally bestselling author of The Scholar and The Ruin.\n \nFirst Rule: Make them like you.\n \nSecond Rule: Make them need you.\n \nThird Rule: Make them pay.\n \nThey think I'm a young, idealistic law student, that I'm passionate about reforming a corrupt and brutal system.\n \nThey think I'm working hard to impress them.\n \nThey think I'm here to save an innocent man on death row.\n \n They're wrong. I'm going to bury him.\n