Twenty

 Shirley J.                 Adult Fiction                                             School Shootings,  parents, cops/FBI

Twenty by James Grippando    384 pages

There is a school shooting happening.  You are the parent.  You are in the school building when it happens.  You are an FBI agent.   What do you do?     FBI agent Andie Henning knows she is supposed to stay locked down in the area she is in but her daughter is in the kindergarten room, she is a mother first and foremost...a gun is found onsite that is registered to another parent of a child attending the school, a Muslim man named Amir Khoury, who is married to Andie's friend, Lilly, a white woman whose ancestors go back to the founding of America.   Emotions erupt to the frenzied anti Muslim days of 9/11, when Middle Easterners dealt with hostility and terrorist accusations.   Al Qaeda claims responsibility fanning the raging fury over 20 killed at the school.   Andie's husband Jack is a trial lawyer and is called in.  This is a story that is so full of emotion and could be pulled from current events.