In nineteen minutes you can mow your front lawn, or dye your hair, or bake scones for breakfast. In nineteen minutes you can stop the ground or jump off it. In nineteen minutes you can get your revenge. Sterling is a sleepy provincial town in New Hampshire . One day, his quiet life is disrupted by gunfire at his high school. And to survive this event, it is not enough to achieve the triumph of justice. For the residents of Stirling, the line between truth and fiction, good and evil, friend and foe has been erased forever. Josie Cormier, the judge's daughter, could have been a valuable witness for the prosecution, but she does not remember what happened in front of her eyes, and the facts that become clear during the trial cast a shadow of guilt on both schoolchildren and adults, destroying even the most strong friendships and family ties. The novel “Nineteen Minutes” poses simple questions to which there are no simple answers. Is it possible not to know your own child? What does it mean to be different? Is the victim's desire to strike back justified? And who should judge, if any of us has the right to judge another?