Nineteen Minutes by Jodie Picoult

AZ: "Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens – until a student enters the local high school with an arsenal of guns and starts shooting, changing the lives of everyone inside and out. The daughter of the judge sitting on the case is the state’s best witness – but she can’t remember what happened in front of her own eyes. Or can she?"

Didn't disappoint after Perfect Match. Again a female in the legal system, this time a judge, whose daughter is the childhood friend of a boy who kills fellow students at his High School. Utterly convincing depiction of the hell that is school and as good an argument for criminalising firearms as Bowling for Columbine. Accurate on the misery of the teenage years and interesting information on the psychology of the brain of a teenager.