Best-selling author, Lisa Scottoline, has been hailed as "the female John Grisham" by people magazine. She is a successful trial lawyer with a well-known law firm. Vendetta Defence, delivers a rich, vivid story of past sins, love, and justice.
'Pigeon Tony' as his neighbours know him, is an elderly pigeon racer, who is involved in a fifty-year vendetta - a blood feud that has brought great tragedy to his life. When Pigeon Tony murders Coluzzi, Judy Carrier, the young, gutsy lawyer, takes on the case.
Pigeon Tony admits to the killing, but the revengeful Coluzzi family are determined to dispose with them both before the case can go to trial. In a case steeped in blood and memory, it will take a stroke of brilliance to save Pigeon Tony. But this gutsy young attorney will risk everything to win... including her life.