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Editor: Kevin Flynn
Profession: Author - Relentless Pursuit

From the blog "Curled Up With a Good Book": "Engaging, gripping and filled with facts ... For this reader, the highlights of the book are two-fold: the prosecutor did get his suspect and the jury found him guilty, and the relationship between the lawyer and his client(s) was amazing and heart-warming ...

This is a satisfying book for anyone interested in a mystery, a true crime story and a heartwarming friendship between two races (and social/educational classes) not always comfortable together in our largest urban centers."

For the full review, click here.

And from Booklist, which publishes reviews for the American Library Association, comes this:

"Flynn, a prosecutor in the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office, lays out the anatomy of building a case, bringing it to trial, and successfully prosecuting it. What saves his account from becoming either a first-person exercise in egomania or a dull graphing of procedure is Flynn's passion for prosecuting a particular case. In 1993, on a day when Diane Hawkins was to appear in court to sue her husband for child support, she and her daughter were savagely murdered. Appalled at the brutality of the murder, Flynn resolved to get the killer. As he recounts what happened, we learn about the importance of getting out and talking to people and of seeing the scene: "Every murder case is just a story," he writes, "and every story happens in a place." Flynn also confesses his uncertainties about how to tackle the case and a great deal about his personal life; the latter seems extraneous at first but leads to how this case and the remarkable family of the victims changed him. Flynn is an engaging (though sometimes verbose) tour guide through the criminal underworld."