Attorney Jack Newlin comes home one evening to find his
wife, Honor, dead on the floor of their elegant dining
room. Convinced that he knows who killed her--and
determined to hide the truth--Jack decides to make it look
as though he did it. Staging the crime scene so that the
evidence incriminates him, he then calls the police. And
to hammer the final nail in his own coffin, he hires the
most inexperienced lawyer he can find, a reluctant rookie
by the name of Mary DiNunzio, employed at the hot
Philadelphia firm of Rosato & Associates.
Unfortunately for Jack, hiring Mary may turn out to be his
only mistake.
Though inexperienced, Mary doubts Jack's confession and
begins to investigate the crime. She finds that instead of
having a guilty client who is falsely proclaiming his
innocence, she has an innocent client who is falsely
proclaiming his guilt. Her ethics and instincts tell her
she can't defend a man who wants only one thing--to
convict himself. Or can she? Smarter, gutsier, and more
determined than she has any right to be, Mary decides to
stick with the case. With help from the most unexpected
sources, she sets out to prove what really happened--
because as any lawyer knows, a case is never as simple as
it seems.
And nothing is ever certain until the final moment of
truth.
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