Defending Jacob
by William Landay
2012/432 pages
narrated by Grover Gardener
rating 8 (high for crime)

Andy Barber is a district attorney in a small suburban town where a teen-age boy is killed in the park. .  Jacob,  Andy’s 14 year-old son,  seems to have some social and behavioral problems – and a knife.  When it looks like Jacob is in big time trouble with the law,  what is  Andy’s place?