Negligence — Robert Gregory Browne

DEAD GIRLS TELL NO TALES...

She was found with a bullet in her head, and the kid she was last seen with woke up drugged and disoriented in a neighbor's backyard. Now the kid is awaiting trial for her murder, and crime reporter Matt Isaacs is convinced that there's more here than meets the eye.

But Matt's old college pal, Ethan "Hutch" Hutchinson washed-up actor and newly-minted trial junkie isn't so sure, until a violent attack propels Hutch and his friends into the middle of a conspiracy that takes them all the way from the courthouse gallery to the not so hallowed halls of an exclusive Chicago prep school... straight into the hands of a killer."