Sometime later, Sarah is hit by a car and knocked unconscious while fleeing from Austin Cullens' house after discovering he'd been murdered. Austin worked for her brother, George, who also turns up dead (no one seemed to care about who killed George). The DA charges Sarah with Austin's murder and that's when the real fun begins (not for Austin, of course, because he's dead. But everyone in the book kept calling him "Aussie", which is a *terrible* nickname for Austin, so perhaps he was better off).
Sarah is claiming amnesia from being hit by the car, so she's no help as to what actually happened at Austin's house. Perry does pretty good without her, honestly. He gets Sergeant Holcomb all turned around in regards to the bullets he was carrying (seriously, though, why would you carry around bullets from TWO different crime scenes?! He was just asking for it). Perry was trying to show who the real killer was, and the DA was screaming about how he didn't care, which alarmed the judge (me as well. I think, and hey, maybe I'm wrong, but the DA *should* want to prosecute the right person). In the end Perry presented a completely logical explanation of how it could have happened and the DA (Sampson this time instead of Burger) claimed in court that his explanation was preposterous. When the jury returned the verdict, they included a line about how the DA should try to charge the real killer a little more intelligently than they did in their case against Sarah. I was literally laughing out loud. One of the best courtroom scenes in a Mason book ever.
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