The Legal Limit

Intricately plotted, intelligently conceived, and relentlessly entertaining, Martin Clark's new novel ties together family loyalty and the legal system in one slippery knot. The son of an abusive father and a loving mother, Mason Hunt managed to escape the small town of Stuart, Virginia, for college and law school. When he and his family move back he becomes the town's commonwealth attorney. But, Mason has a horrible, dark secret: Years before, he and his brother, Gates, witnessed a murder on a back country road. Now the events of one night may prove his undoing.

Martin Clark, a circuit court judge, lives in Stuart, Virginia. His first novel, The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living, was a New York Times Notable Book, a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, a finalist for the Stephen Crane First Fiction Award, and appeared on several best-seller lists.