The Innocence Game: A Novel
Written by Michael Harvey
Narrated by Robbie Daymond and Robertson Dean
3.5/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this audiobook
From Michael Harvey, Chicago's best-known crime writer and author of the popular Michael Kelly series, comes something different: a leap forward into a dark world where the lines between innocence and guilt disappear altogether.
They're young, brilliant, beautiful . . . and naïve enough to believe they can make a difference. For three graduate students, the exclusive innocence seminar at the nation's most esteemed journalism school is supposed to teach them how to free the falsely accused from prison. Little do they know the most important lesson they'll learn is how to stay alive.
The first day of class for Ian Joyce and Sarah Gold starts like any other, until a fellow student, Jake Havens, pulls a wrinkled envelope from his backpack. Inside is a bloodstained scrap of shirt from a boy murdered fourteen years ago and an anonymous note taking credit for the killing. The only problem is the alleged murderer is already dead.
Suddenly, the class has a new assignment: find the real killer. As the case unfolds, the bodies and questions begin to pile up.
Why are innocent men being framed?
Who's been getting away with murder?
Drawn into a web of deceit and corruption, the students realize they, too, are being hunted. Ian, Sarah, and Jake are smart . . . but are they smart enough to stay alive?
From Northwestern's idyllic campus, to the grittiest corners of Chicago, to the frigid depths of Lake Michigan, The Innocence Game is irresistible, harrowing suspense from a writer at the top of his form.
Michael Harvey
Michael Harvey is the author of seven previous novels, including Brighton and The Chicago Way. He’s also a journalist and documentarian whose work has won multiple News & Documentary Emmys, two Primetime Emmy nominations, and an Academy Award nomination. Raised in Boston, he now lives in Chicago.
More audiobooks from Michael Harvey
Brighton: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pulse: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to The Innocence Game
Related audiobooks
The Professor & the Coed: Scandal & Murder at the Ohio State University Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fiend: The Shocking True Story Of America's Youngest Serial Killer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Eye of the Beholder Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Why Learn History: When It's Already on Your Phone Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Serial Killer's Apprentice: The True Story of How Houston's Deadliest Murderer Turned a Kid into a Killing Machine Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNo More Heroes: Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Kill Jar: Obsession, Descent, and a Hunt for Detroit's Most Notorious Serial Killer Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Interracial Solidarity in 1960s-70s New Left Organizing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPassions of the Dead Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Dark Inheritance (UFiles, Book 1) Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lifting the Chains: The Black Freedom Struggle Since Reconstruction Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Celia, A Slave Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Best American Mystery And Suspense 2021 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Parkland: Birth of a Movement Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prison Guard's Daughter: My Journey Through the Ashes of Attica Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Breaking the Chains: African American Slave Resistance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNever Saw Me Coming Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates the New Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Thrillers For You
The Silent Patient Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Holly Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Perfect: A Thriller That Will Grab You By Your DNA Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Inmate Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Guest List: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wrong Place Wrong Time: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Never Lie Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fairy Tale Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Perfect Marriage: a completely gripping psychological suspense Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rose Code: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Local Woman Missing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leave the World Behind: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Dead Zone Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Paris Apartment: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Teacher Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The It Girl Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bright Young Women: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Flicker in the Dark: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Cabin at the End of the World: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Terminal List: A Thriller Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Future Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Turn of the Key Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mr. Mercedes: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hidden Pictures: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Housemaid Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Fury Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fool Me Once Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Innocence Game
24 ratings1 review
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A book set at the McGill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and in and around Chicago will always fascinate me. I love reading books when one is so familiar with the area you are reading about. Just makes it so much easier to visualize the story. In this book Harvey takes three college grad students and embroils them in a case that features a murderer, cover-ups, dirty cops and others. There were a few surprises, and times one has to suspend belief and logic but it was entertaining and the action and story line moved relatively quick.