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In a quiet South Carolina town, a young salon owner is found murdered—brutally and deliberately. Assistant DA Colm Truesdale, still shattered by the loss of his wife and daughter, is pulled back into the work he’s been trying to escape. But this case won’t stay simple for long. Evidence vanishes. Pages are ripped from an appointment book. A judge with too much power—and too much to hide—keeps throwing up roadblocks. Then the crime scene itself goes up in flames.
As Colm digs deeper, the investigation twists into a maze of tampered proof, political favors, blackmail, and a second death made to look like suicide. The closer he gets to the truth, the more personal the threats become—and the more his grief threatens to swallow him whole.
If you like fast legal thrillers where every “sure thing” turns out to be a trap, this summary is for you.
