This book is the reason we have police reform. The police are so dirty that almost hang an innocent man five times. At it is Billik spends nine years in prison for a crime he did not commit. With court transcripts that add so much to the account and that makes it worse. The writing in this book is very strong. Shukis does good research and he does not pull any punches. He takes you from the day the police where called in all the way to the end of those involves lives. Shukis gives an interesting overview of the events without telling the reader what to think. In the beginning of the book I thought that maybe Bullik had done it, at the middle I did not think that Billik was guilty but I did not know who I thought was and by the end of the book I had a very different idea about the whole case. Shukis does a great job and I look forward to reading whatever he does next.

I give this book a Five out of Five stars. ( )