Today in paperback. Was a monstrous killer taken to justice or an innocent mom condemned?

With an April night in 1989, Jo Ann Parks survived a house fire that claimed the lives of her three small kids. Though the fireplace at first appeared a tragic incident, investigators quickly reported finding proof showing that Parks got sabotaged wiring, established several fires herself, as well as barricade her four-year-old son inside a closet to prevent his escape. Though she insisted she do nothing incorrect, Jo about Burnt: A Story of Murder and the Criminal offense That Wasn’t Ann Parks received a life phrase without parole based on the energy of forensic fire technology that convincingly demonstrated her guilt.

But greater than a one fourth century later, a trend in the science of fire has exposed many of the incontrovertible truths of 1989 as guesswork in disguise. The California Innocence Project is complicated Parks’s conviction as well as the so-called science behind it, declaring that fake assumptions and outright bias convicted an innocent mother of a criminal offense that never in fact happened.

If Parks is exonerated, she is possibly the ‘Individual Zero’ in an epidemic of overturned guilty verdicts-but only when she wins. Can prosecutors dredge up more than enough evidence and roadblocks to make sure Jo Ann Parks dies in prison? Regardless of how her last-ditch effort for freedom turns out, the scenes of betrayal, spoil, and wish will leave readers desiring justice we are able to trust.