Dan Dane
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<i>Fireflies in the Delta</i> is an examination of why innocent inmates in jail confess to crimes they did not commit. A deputy sheriff, motivated by
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an illicit love affair and hunger for power, gets an illiterate vagrant to confess to a murder commited by his lover's brothers. A newly elected, idealistic District Attorney refuses to use the false confession as the resolution of the case. This unwittingly draws him into a power struggle with the diabolical deputy and those in the criminal justice system aligned with him. The resolution of this struggle may be too true to life for many readers.
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