School Days

Spenser, the Boston private investigator, is pulled into one of the ugliest cases of his career when a shooting at a school leaves several people dead. A teenage boy from Massachusetts is charged with the killings, and the evidence against him looks damning. The boy's grandmother, a woman of real standing in her community, refuses to accept that he is guilty. She is ready to put her influence and her energy into clearing his name, and she wants Spenser on the case. Spenser is less sure. The boy seems oddly resigned to what is happening to him and does little to help his own cause, and the facts keep pointing the same way. The only thing Spenser is certain of is that the case will bring more trouble than it first appears.