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Second chances don’t usually come twenty-five years late, but that’s exactly what happens in Robert Whitlow’s Guilty Until Innocent.
Ryan Clark, a young lawyer on shaky professional ground, takes a job with his cousin Tom in small-town North Carolina. Almost immediately, he’s pulled into revisiting one of Tom’s most painful cases: Joe Moore, convicted of murder decades earlier. Joe was high the night of the crime and doesn’t remember what happened, but he’s since become a man of faith with a ministry behind prison walls. His family has never stopped believing in his innocence, and now they want Ryan and Tom to prove it.
The deeper they dig, the more they expose a web of secrets that the town has worked hard to bury. Whitlow mixes legal drama with moral reflection, creating a story that asks whether redemption and justice can coexist. The courtroom drama is sharp, the investigative twists are satisfying, and the characters—especially Joe—carry real emotional weight.
The book isn’t flawless. Some of the side tangents drag, and the ending ties things up a little too neatly. But overall, this is Whitlow doing what he does best: exploring truth, faith, and justice in a way that keeps you turning the pages.