The little girl hadn’t spoken since the night her mother was found on the kitchen floor! Then the court dog lowered his head-and she whispered one sentence toward the defense table…

room, with solemn brown eyes and a yellow cardigan buttoned wrong over a blue dress. One of her white shoes had a sticker on the side. Her stuffed rabbit dangled from her elbow by one worn ear, its fur rubbed thin where her thumb had worried it down.

Boone followed at her pace.

The German Shepherd moved without the theatrical nobility people liked to continue reading …