In the next courtroom drama in the "New YorkTimes" bestselling Karp-Ciampi series, Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi gettangled up in a web of misdirection and must unravel it in time to solve a massmurder.When a tremendous blast rocks an old school building in East Harlem duringa meeting of the New York Charter Schools, killing six and wounding a dozenothers, it's initially blamed on a natural gas explosion. However, as ButchKarp digs a little deeper, he discovers the explosion was the work of amysterious serial arsonist in the employ of the teacher's union president, whois angry at the unqualified successes of the charter school movement in NewYork City and worried for the corrupt public school system. Also involved inthe planning and cover-up is a major law enforcement player and a politicalhack who panders to the union for financial support and gets caught up in thehomicidal scheme.At least that's the conclusion Butch Karp is operating underwhen he indicts the pair for murder. But is it a trap? Is there another motivebehind the attack that could derail the case? How will Karp discover it and canhe do so in time to bring justice to the murdered and maimed?
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