I Am Not Guilty

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Set in and around post-war Toronto, I Am Not Guilty first appeared in a condensed form in the February 1954 Ladies Home Journal. That same year, it was published in full by Doubleday as MLord, I Am Not Guilty. Helen Graham has been acquitted in the murder of her wealthy husband, Alberta oil baron Steven Graham, but the eyes of the public continue to view her with suspicion. Worried for her future, and that of her young son, she sets out to find the true killer. The trail leads to the apartment of another womanand revelations about her dead husbands secret lifethen continues to a growing bedroom community in suburban Toronto. What the widow doesnt realize is that she is not alone in her pursuit of the murderer or how ready that murderer is to kill again.

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'A vivid and arresting novel of suspense, cleverly portraying the story of average human beings caught in the toils of murder.' --Ottawa Citizen

'First-rate.' --Montreal Gazette

Author Bio

Patricia Abbott is the author of the mystery novels Concrete Angel (2015) and the Edgar Award-nominated Shot in Detroit (2016). Her collection I Bring Sorrow and Other Stories was published in 2018.