Torment

By William Cone

How many of the more than 8,000 men and women put to death in the US since the 1970's were innocent?National Academy of Science researchers, deploying a technique known as 'survival analysis' say, "If you look at the numbers in our study, at how many errors are made, then you cannot believe we haven't executed innocent people---that would be wishful thinking."Torment tells the story of scientist Marlo Ritter and her literary critic friend, Avery Decker, who stumble across a coded confession to the murder of a beautiful young nurse, Ms. Roni Jo Barton, hidden inside the pages of a recently published best-selling novel.Tommy Casseri, convicted and sentenced to death for the crime fifteen years earlier, is now only days away from his execution, but if the coded confession is real, Tommy is innocent, and Roni Jo's true killer is the novel's celebrated author.The authorities turn a deaf ear to this startling discovery, and the novel's publisher, with millions at stake, threatens to destroy their lives and careers if the hidden message is ever made public. With time running out, Decker and Ritter concoct a bold scheme to root out the truth. When the plan backfires, their own lives along with Tommy's, suddenly hang in the balance.Torment is one of those rare crime thrillers whose story will stay with you long after the final page has been turned.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1982945583
• ISBN13: 9781982945589
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.6" x 5.0"