School Days

Plot

Lily Ellsworth is the grand dame of Dowling, Massachusetts, and the owner of both an iron will and a bottomless purse. When she hires Spenser to investigate her grandson Jared Clark's alleged involvement in a school shooting, Spenser is drawn into a case that grows more harrowing at every turn. Though seven people were killed in cold blood - and despite his being named by the other shooter - Mrs Ellsworth is convinced of her grandson's innocence. Jared's parents are resigned to his fate, and the boy doesn't seem to care whether he is innocent or not...