From the award-winning, bestselling author of SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS --- a moving father-son story that is also a taut courtroom drama and a bold examination of privilege, power and how to live a meaningful life.

A girl dies one late, rainy night a few feet from the back door of her home. The girl, Abeba, was born in Ethiopia. Her adoptive parents, Delvin and Betsy Harvey --- conservative, white fundamentalist Christians --- are charged with her murder.

Royal, a Seattle criminal attorney in the last days of his long career, takes Betsy Harvey’s case. An octogenarian without a driver’s license, he leans on his son --- the novel’s narrator --- as he prepares for trial.

So begins THE FINAL CASE, a bracing, astute and deeply affecting examination of justice and injustice --- and familial love. David Guterson’s first courtroom drama since SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS, it is his most compelling and heartfelt novel to date.

Audiobook available, read by George Newbern