{"product_id":"the-frame-william-sauro-9798274442749","title":"The Frame: A Legal Thriller","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen advertising executive Marcus Chen steps out of a parking garage meeting with his biggest client, he has no idea that Sam Prescott-president of HomeBase and the account that built Marcus's career-is already a dead man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin hours, Marcus is sitting across from two San Francisco homicide detectives, staring at a burner phone that isn't his, texts he didn't write, and a manufactured grudge from a college romance fifteen years buried. Someone has constructed an elaborate frame around him-complete with fake messages, false motive, and a timeline with terrifying gaps. And whoever did it knows enough about Marcus's past to make the lie look almost true.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Frame\u003c\/em\u003e opens at the collision point of two separate nightmares: a murder Marcus didn't commit, and a secret he's desperate to keep. Because Marcus has another vulnerability the police haven't found yet-a thirty-thousand-dollar bribe that brought his adopted son, Billy, into the world. When San Francisco's most expensive defense attorney takes his case, the question isn't just whether Marcus can prove his innocence. It's whether proving it will cost him everything else.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the investigation deepens, Marcus and his attorney Emma Soto uncover a more disturbing truth: the killing wasn't random, the frame wasn't improvised, and the man who built it has the resources, the patience, and the personal motive to watch Marcus spend the rest of his life in prison. Tracing the conspiracy back through old wounds, broken marriages, and a carefully staged murder scene, they begin to assemble the only defense that can work-not a simple alibi, but the complete, unsparing truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in contemporary San Francisco against the steel-and-glass world of high-stakes advertising, courtrooms carved into the Transamerica Pyramid, and the quiet domestic terror of a family coming apart, \u003cem\u003eThe Frame\u003c\/em\u003e is a propulsive legal thriller that never lets its hero-or its reader-catch a breath. Marcus Chen is not a perfect man. He's made choices he can't undo and told lies he can't take back. But he didn't kill Sam Prescott. And proving that, in a courtroom where evidence is narrative and narrative is everything, will require him to sacrifice the very secrets he's been protecting all along.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers who love legal thrillers grounded in authentic courtroom procedure, morally complex protagonists, and high-pressure San Francisco settings, \u003cem\u003eThe Frame\u003c\/em\u003e delivers a driving, suspense-filled story about what it takes to fight for the truth when the truth itself can bury you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Sauro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798274442749\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e William Sauro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.71d","brand":"William Sauro","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48454434488575,"sku":"9798274442749","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_da3910d0-f107-4475-bfde-f5ead74445a5.jpg?v=1777306220","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-frame-william-sauro-9798274442749","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}