Miscarriage of Justice: A Novel

Kip Gayden
Center Street (2008)
ISBN 9781599956879
Reviewed by Carol Hoyer for Reader Views (2/08)

 

When you are one of the most upstanding families in the community what happens when you fall from Grace?  Anna Dotson was soon to find out. A mother of two, a doctor for a husband and part of the community’s popular social circle had made one of the biggest mistakes of her life and it might cause her to lose her life.

Charlie Cobb was the new barber in town and he had a way with the women and he knew it. He had set his sights on Anna Dotson and, true to form, she became his until her husband and the whole town found out about them. Dr. Dotson went crazy and threatened to kill Charlie Cobb if he didn’t leave town and leave his wife alone. But Dr. Dotson didn’t kill the womanizing barber. Anna Dotson said, “She killed this thing, but didn’t murder him.” Did she know what she was doing?  What would she resort to in order to protect her husband and children?

“Miscarriage of Justice” is Kip Gayden’s first novel and this reader firmly believes he has a great gift of drawing one into his story by his style of writing and his ability to put you in Anna Dotson’s body.

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