Judgment Calls

Alafair Burke

Sep 2004 · Samantha Kincaid Book 1 · Bolinda · Narrated by Betty Bobbitt

About this audiobook

After three years on the job in Portland's Drug and Vice Division, Deputy DA Samantha Kincaid gets what she wants: her first case with the Major Crimes Team. Kendra Martin, a 13-year-old runaway, has been found drugged, viciously assaulted and left for dead in the Columbia River Gorge. Despite pressures to kick the case to assault, Samantha goes for attempted murder. Unfortunately the girl's story isn't gelling. Then again, neither is the alibi of the suspect she ID'd, a low-life who insists he's innocent. One thing is certain. Kendra knows the streets better than Vice – and Samantha's following her down every last one of them to crack the case. But the road to the truth is more dangerous than Samantha dreamed, leading to an earlier death-penalty conviction, a teenage prostitution ring and threats to Samantha's own life. When the possibility of a serial killer enters the fray, it sends Samantha's trial into a tailspin and tests her judgment – in both her professional and personal life – to the very death.

About the author

Alafair Burke is a New York Times bestselling author whose most recent novels include The Wife and The Ex, which was nominated for the Edgar Award for best novel. She also co-authors the bestselling Under Suspicion series with Mary Higgins Clark. A former prosecutor, she now teaches criminal law and lives in Manhattan and East Hampton. She is the daughter of acclaimed crime writer James Lee Burke.

Betty Bobbitt was born in New York, raised in Philadelphia, and trained as an actor in Los Angeles. In 1962 she was offered a television role in Australia and since then she has been a full-time actor, frequent teacher, obsessed writer and occasional director. She has received two acting awards from the Television Society of Australia for her work in the long-running series, Prisoner, and was nominated in the Best Director category at the Green Room awards for a production of Dan Goggin's Nunsense. Betty has narrated a number of books for Bolinda Audio including The Final Confession of Mabel Stark by Robert Hough and Judgment Calls by Alafair Burke.