Dervla McTiernan is top notch. A highly recommended series purchase for collections where crime fiction is popular. The audiobooks are beautifully narrated.

While we won't purchase the audiobook we will purchase the Hardcover version. A good story about things not always being what they seem and how we can deceive ourselves.

Hannah is a 3rd year law student in Maine. She is on a mission to seek revenge on the man who she believes killed her father. She wants him to stay in prison for life for a murder he swears he didn’t commit. To do this she must transfer to UVA law school and talk her way on to the Innocence project – specifically on to the case of Michael Dandridge whose original conviction was overturned but who is on the verge of being tried again, unless the innocence project can convince the judge the original evidence was tainted. Hannah is sneaky, conniving, and bright – very bright – and she manages to to talk her way on to his case. Luckily, she also genuinely believes in justice. The Murder Rule was a riveting story told from two points of view – the 1994 diary of Laura who is Hannah’s mother and Hannah’s as she works to sabotage the project. The work of the law students to help prove people innocent was intriguing and very well explained (McTiernan is herself a lawyer). The ending was totally unexpected following some real heart stopping action.

An interesting take on The Innocence Project, Dervia McTiernan offers up a tale with a twist that made for a suspenseful listen. The narrators were excellent and I recognized two of their voices. I'll be recommending this in my book group.

3.5 stars. I'm a big fan of Dervla McTiernan's gritty first novel, The Ruin, which is set in Ireland. Had I not seen her name on the cover of this audiobook, I would have never guessed that she penned this legal suspense tale set primarily at the University of Virginia.
Hannah is a law student in Maine when she cons her way onto an Innocence Project Team at UVA run by a charismatic Brit. We soon discover that she is there not to "fight the good fight" of freeing the wrongly convicted, but for a much more personal reason.
The story is told in the dual voices of Hannah in present day, and through the old journal entries of her mother Laura, who is now a fragile alcoholic.
The twists in this story make up for some of the plot holes, and overall it was an entertaining enough read. I still hope that McTiernan will return to gloomy Galway in her future books.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the advanced copy of this audiobook in exchange for my opinion.

Her books keep getting better. This one was well-plotted, as usual, and the characters are compelling. The narrator is superb.