Overview
This debut novel shines a light on the dark subject of infanticide when a successful female criminal defense lawyer is ordered to defend a seventeen-year-old minister's daughter charged with murder in the drowning death of her newborn child. In Defense of Good Women is the story of Victoria Stephens, a successful, hard-nosed criminal defense attorney appointed by the court to represent a seventeen-year-old minister's daughter charged with murder in the drowning death of her newborn child. Victoria faces a hostile community, a salivating press, an uncooperative client, but most of all, a nagging intuition that she should not be handling this case. Forced to delve into the psychology of neonaticide as she searches for a defense, Victoria discovers a link between this case and her own past which, once uncovered, leads her beyond the boundaries of not just her profession, but the law.
- | Author: Marilyn J. Zimmerman
- | Publisher: Sparkpress
- | Publication Date: Jun 10, 2025
- | Number of Pages: 00312 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 1684633184
- | ISBN-13: 9781684633180
