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Violence
A lot
Moderate-to-strong violence — murders; the death row backstory; confrontations
Language
Some
Moderate profanity
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No meaningful substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
The exoneration — who confessed and why; what Mars actually knows; the real murderers' twenty-year-old motive
What this book is about
Melvin Mars has spent twenty years on death row for the murders of his parents. Minutes before his execution, two other people confess to the crimes. The exoneration raises more questions than it answers — and Amos Decker is assigned to find the truth. The Last Mile is the second Amos Decker novel — Baldacci at his most plot-efficient.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
A near-execution and last-minute exoneration
Death row — twenty years of wrongful imprisonment
Second in the Amos Decker series
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