Bobby J.

by Richard Helms

Fourteen year old Bobby Jessup's violent history was no secret among the professionals who worked with troubled children in his town. Most of them had chosen, for their own reasons, to ignore young Bobby's dark, dangerous potential.Now, he has brutalized and raped a young child, and these very professionals will confront their own weaknesses, fears, failures, and opportunistic desires.Before Bobby can be brought to justice, careers will tumble, reputations will be destroyed, and an innocent family will be torn apart forever.What Bobby did to his victim was horrible.What happened in court, though, was a crime.Former forensic psychologist and critically acclaimed mystery and thriller author Richard Helms draws on his extensive courtroom experience and his national recognition as an expert in sex crimes to deliver a taut, gripping, deeply thought-provoking courtroom drama in his thrilling new novel, Bobby J.

451 pages, Paperback

Published March 8, 2019

About the author

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aka Eric Shane and Noah Roarke
Three-Time PWA Shamus Award Nominee. Author of the Pat Gallegher series set in New Orleans, and the Eamon Gold series set in San Francisco. Editor and publisher of The Back Alley, a webzine featuring hardboiled and noir fiction for a new century.
On May 2, 2008, he became the only author ever to win TWO Short Mystery Fiction Society Derringer Awards in the same year, for THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO GORDON BLACK, which was published under his own name in Kevin Burton Smith's Thrilling Detective Website, and for PAPER WALLS/GLASS HOUSES, which was published under his pseudonym Eric Shane in his own Back Alley Webzine. It's been a big year!

Series:
* Pat Gallegher
* Eamon Gold
* Judd Wheeler