From the co-author ofBlack Masscomes a gripping YA novel inspired by the true story of a young man’s false imprisonment for murderand those who fought to free him.

On a hot summer night in the late 1980s, in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, a twelve-year-old African-American girl was sitting on a mailbox talking with her friends when she became the innocent victim of gang-related gunfire. Amid public outcry, an immediate manhunt was on to catch the murderer, and a young African-American man was quickly apprehended, charged, and wrongly convicted of the crime. Dick Lehr, a former reporter for theBoston Globe’s famous Spotlight Team who investigated this case for the newspaper, now turns the story intoTrell,a page-turning novel about the daughter of an imprisoned man who persuades a reporter and a lawyer to help her prove her father’s innocence. What pieces of evidence might have been overlooked? Can they manage to get to the truth before a dangerous character from the neighborhood gets to them?