Jackson Workman Pickens Work to his friends an unambitious lawyer in asmall Southern town has some serious baggage. His mother died a year ago froma fall down... » 

Jackson Workman Pickens Work to his friends an unambitious lawyer in asmall Southern town has some serious baggage. His mother died a year ago froma fall down the familys colonial staircase and his father Ezra has beenmissing ever since. Work is left to deal with his psychologically damagedsister his fathers legal caseload and his own rocky marriage. Power and greedbring many enemies especially for a man as cruel as Ezra Pickens so when hisbody turns up pretty much everyone in town is a suspect but only one man ischarged with the murder With time his wife and public opinion against himWork embarks on his toughest case yet proving his own innocence. Hisinvestigation will uncover a web of intrigue he could never have imagined and he soon realises that no one is above suspicion even those he lovesmost. «