Turning angel by Greg Iles

Lawyer Penn Cage returns to defend his best friend since childhood for the murder of a young female student, with whom his friend was intimate, at their old alma mater, St. Stephen's Prep.

Love the Penn Cage novels! Greg Ilse's books are lengthy, but worth it. He loves to go into detail about the settings and character's backgrounds. He always has a character you want to stand up for as well as one you hope gets it in the end.

So this is a real page turner but I have serious issues with it that other reviewers have articulated better than I can. A 40+ year old doctor has a sexual relationship with a 17 year old girl and repeatedly tries to justify it and the main characters admits to sexual thoughts towards his teenage babysitter. As another reviewer put it, it is a middle aged man's sexual fantasy, salacious and sexually explicit. I had already been irritated by the protaganist in the first book of the series find him to be smug and self-important.