The Venturi Effect
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After fleeing the crush of a partnership at a large Chicago criminal-defense firm and the humiliation of a professional breakdown, Devlin Winters just wants to be left alone with a couple sundowners on the deck of her dilapidated mahogany trawler on Galveston Bay. But when an old flame shows up on the boardwalk with a mysterious little boy in tow and an indictment on his heels, fate has other plans, and Devlin finds herself thrust onto a sailboat bound for St. Kitts and staring down her demons in the courtroom, as she squares off against an obsessed prosecutor with a secret of his own.On Webb’s The Unremarkable Circumstances of Inmate 17656-090:“This is a remarkable book by an author of extraordinary talent.”Joseph Schreiber, Author of Ghosts of the Mid-Country“[A]n intriguing story . . . captivating and described [with] extreme skill.”Red City Review, naming the book its 2018 Best Debut Novel
