July Mysteries Roundup: Crime writers craft clever whodunits set amid Virginia backdrops
By JAY STRAFFORD FOR THE FREE LANCE–STAR When Scott Turow's début novel, 'Presumed Innocent,' exploded on the crime-fiction scene in 1986, word of ...
By JAY STRAFFORD FOR THE FREE LANCE–STAR When Scott Turow's début novel, 'Presumed Innocent,' exploded on the crime-fiction scene in 1986, word of mouth ignited a frenzy of late-night reading that culminated in a shock that remains resonant.So might Australian author Dervla McTiernan's first non-series novel, 'The Murder Rule' (William Morrow, $27.99, 304 pages).As the story opens, Hannah Rokeby, a third-year law student at the University of Maine, travels to Charlottesville to join the Innocence Project Clinic at the University of Virginia.