PROVIDENCE, R.I., Nov. 21, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- In Commonwealth Trust (now available through 1stBooks), a riveting novel about organized crime and the law, Amelia F. Jestings tells of a promising third year law student named Dean Michaels. She tells how his job with a premier Boston attorney shakes the foundations of trust in his life and teaches him more about being a lawyer than he could ever learn in law school.
The novel opens with the arrest of Nicholas Buontempo Jr., the son of the head of the New England mob. He is charged with murdering his father's disgruntled underling. Leo Barry, a prominent Boston attorney, breaks his long standing policy of not representing crime family members to take on Buontempo's case.
In the past, Dean's father, a minister, was gunned down by a mob in the West as he attempted to counsel them. By representing this ruthless criminal, Leo, Dean's friend, father figure and employer, shatters Dean's trust in him. Leo is up against attorney general Clifford McDougall, whose passion is fueled by a nasty election campaign that is threatening his job. Dean watches as the two powerhouses clash, both in and out of the courtroom.
A suspenseful story about the mob, the law and the basic foundations of trust, Commonwealth Trust takes readers into modern New England to follow a young student who learns how to be a good lawyer from watching the reality of the job first hand.
A lifelong Rhode Island resident, Jestings is a former special assistant attorney general in the Rhode Island Attorney General's office. She was also an assistant public defender and represented primarily juvenile defendants in family court. She attended Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Wheaton College in Norton and St. Mary's Academy, Bay View in East Providence, R.I. She lives in Providence, R.I., with her husband and two children.
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