Trell, Dick Lehr
Trell, Dick Lehr
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Trell

Author: Dick Lehr

Narrator: Bahni Turpin

Unabridged: 7 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 09/12/2017


Synopsis

From the co-author of Black Mass comes a gripping YA novel based on the true story of a teenage girl’s murder—and a young father’s false imprisonment for the crime.On a hot summer night in the late 1980s, in the Boston neighborhood of Roxbury, a fourteen-year-old African-American girl was sitting on a mailbox talking with her friends when she became the innocent victim of gang-related gunfire. Amid public outcry, an immediate manhunt was on to catch the murderer, and a young African-American man was quickly apprehended, charged, and—wrongly—convicted of the crime. Dick Lehr, a former reporter for the Boston Globe’s famous Spotlight Team who worked on this story three decades ago, brings the case to light once more with Trell, a page-turning novel about the daughter of the imprisoned man, who persuades a reporter and a lawyer to help her prove her father’s innocence. What pieces of evidence might have been overlooked? Can they manage to get to the truth before a dangerous character from the neighborhood gets to them?

About Dick Lehr

DICK LEHR is a well-known Boston-based reporter and the author of numerous nonfiction books for adults. Most notably, he is the co-author of a book on the mafia crime boss Whitey Bulger, Black Mass, which was made into a film starring Johnny Depp. Lehr, now a professor of journalism at Boston University, was previously a reporter for the Boston Globe and a member of the paper’s famous Spotlight Team. Trell is his first book for young adults.


Reviews

Book Reviewed by Stacey on www.whisperingstories.com Fourteen-year-old Van Trell Taylor (Trell) has been brought up by her mum Shey, on one of Boston’s roughest estates. She sees her father, Romero Taylor, every Saturday at the state prison where he has been for the last twelve years after he was con......more

Goodreads review by Paula

This book grabbed my attention from the cover as it was amazing and eye-catching with the newspapers. This book turned out to be based on a true event that happened in 1988 in Boston. On that fateful night in August, a 12-year-old girl was sitting on her mailbox talking to her friends when she was s......more

Goodreads review by Erin

Ugh, I go back and forth on this. Because the idea is really great, of a teenage girl who fights all of the odds to get her wrongfully convicted father out of jail. Plus, this is based on a true story that Lehr worked on and was inspired by. So, great. I'm sure that Mr. Lehr is a strong journalist d......more