The Banquet of Consequences is about what came to be known as the Carnation murders. Were the killings a premeditation act, or had the defendants acted in self-defense? And what of the deaths of Olivia and Nathan? Who shot them, and why? It would not be an easy task for the jury to decide. Reader review for Paul Sanders: "The reader is taken into a world few of us who have ever received a jury summons will ever experience."