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'The moment Katie Dean began to believe she’d been abandoned by God was on a Sunday afternoon in August of 1992.
It was late in the summertime in Michigan. Katie, along with her mother and brothers and sisters, had returned home earlier from the First Methodist Church in Casco Township. At seventeen, Kirk was her oldest sibling, then Kiri, sixteen, then Katie, who was just two months shy of her thirteenth birthday. Kody was the baby of the family at ten. They were gathered around the dining room table, waiting for mother to bring the platter of fried chicken in from the kitchen.
The fresh smell of Lake Michigan floated through the open dining room windows, mingling with the sweet odors of chicken and garlic mashed potatoes. After lunch, Katie and Kiri were planning to pack a small basket with a thermos of ice water, suntan lotion and magazines, and hike to the sand dunes above the lake where they would spend the afternoon lying in the sun and giggling about the Nelson boys who lived just up the road. It would be their last visit to the dunes this summer. School was starting back the next morning...'

An Innocent Client published

worldwide in six languages.

Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review – and more praise for An Innocent Client

“Former attorney Pratt delves into rural Tennessee law and politics in this brilliantly executed debut. When a preacher is murdered after visiting an infamous strip club, the club’s owner hires jaded attorney Joe Dillard to defend Angel Christian, a beautiful waitress accused of the crime. Dillard, savvy but cynical, wants to quit doing criminal defense, but he can’t resist the chance to represent someone who might actually be innocent. His drug-addicted sister has just been released from prison and his mother is succumbing to Alzheimer’s, but Dillard’s commitment to the case never wavers despite the personal troubles and professional demands that threaten to destroy him. Pratt’s richly developed characters are vivid and believable, especially the strong Southern women who fight their male-dominated culture from behind a facade of vulnerability. Readers will eagerly anticipate Dillard’s further adventures.”

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In Good Faith is available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Books•A•Million and Buy.com.

'I've read An Innocent Client and am truly stunned – it's Scott Turow and Grisham on meth. The opening chapter is maybe the most compelling I've read in a decade.'
– Ken Bruen, Shamus Award-winning author of The Guards.

Publishers Weekly Starred Review "One of the best books I've read this year:" Michelle Gagnon "Auspicious debut:" Tom Miller

Contact Scott Pratt by e-mail:

Scott@scottprattfiction.com