#Sins of our fathers professional

Grace Donovan needs a mention here if only to say that Mathieu spends some time with Grace’s character and her relationship with her father. I actually had my head in my hands twice saying “Oh no!”

#Sins of our fathers professional

She follows her instincts, even though at times this is beyond both her professional limits and common sense.

Whilst all her friends and colleagues have gone into private practice and thus earn large salaries, she has taken a different route. She similarly goes her own way with her investigation into proving Raymond’s innocence. Valden: Elizabeth has had a wealthy upbringing and is the daughter of an attorney who runs his own very profitable practice. The police are insistent that he is guilty and Detective Grace Donovan and Elizabeth cross paths a number of times. She finds Father Parker, a Catholic priest, to help her and the story details her investigative journey to prove the innocence of the man. She thus feels unable to sign off on the audit until she has done some more investigation. He has confessed to this murder and Elizabeth believes he was not clever enough to have carried it out.

One of the cases Elizabeth audits has Raymond, a simple man with a low IQ, found guilty of a murder. This follows the discovery of a number of cases of corruption elsewhere in the legal system and the DA wants to demonstrate that he is clean as he runs for Governor. She is given the task of auditing three old cases that were tried by the District Attorney’s major Crimes Division, to ensure they have been dealt with correctly. It is not a romance.Įlizabeth Campbell is an attorney in a non-profit legal clinic that is always fighting for funds and grants. Sins of our Fathers by A Rose Mathieu is a grim and dark mystery that has a surprising lightness and humour about it in places.