The Novel
Blind Conviction
A Hannah Parker Novel
Hannah Parker has built her career on certainty.
As Calloway County’s most successful prosecutor, she knows the difference between doubt and reasonable doubt—and she knows how to make a jury see it too.
When twenty-two-year-old Claire Ashworth survives a brutal attack in Pryor Park and identifies nineteen-year-old Michael Haynes as her assailant, the evidence points in one direction. A witness. A weapon. Forensic evidence. A second victim who never makes it home.
The case is not perfect.
But Hannah has never needed perfect.
She wins the conviction. Michael is sentenced to death. The county calls it justice, and Hannah’s future is assured.
Then an anonymous message leads her to a sealed record—and a truth buried inside the case she thought she understood.
Suddenly, the evidence begins to fracture. The witness saw less than everyone believed. The forensics prove less than the jury was told. And someone has been shaping the story from the shadows.
As the execution date approaches, Hannah must decide whether the system she devoted her life to reached the wrong answer—or delivered exactly the answer someone intended.
To uncover the truth, she will have to dismantle the case that made her career and confront a past she believed had already taken everything from her.
Because some verdicts end a trial.
Others begin one.
About
Mark E. Lawson is a thirty-year veteran of the beverage alcohol industry and served five years in the Army National Guard as a Legal Specialist. Born in Massachusetts and raised in Alaska, he now lives in Las Vegas with his family. He is the father of four and grandfather of two.
Blind Conviction is his first novel.