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Review title: Anatomy of a trial
Product review: This is a solid, intelligent novel centering around a murder trial. Abner Coates is an assistant DA, and this is his first murder case. Cozzens isn't anything if not thorough, and the legal proceedings in all their details unfold impressively. Anyone interested in courtroom procedurals will find much to savor here (including the somewhat surprising verdict). In addition to the murder trial, there are other legal matters intertwined in the story, the most interesting being a case involving a schoolteacher who had some of his students pose nude for him. Coates's relationship with Bonnie Drummond, a woman he's been dating, is also explored. Cozzens writes with sureness and authority, sometimes so much so that the prose (and thus the characters) can seem bloodless at times. But his commanding and sturdy narrative skills are a pleasure to experience, and the feeling one has at the end is that the book couldn't have been made any better.
