Defense attorney Doug Weaver believes his client, Jacob Cohen, is innocent - but the forensic evidence proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that the meek, mentally ill homeless man killed and dismembered a woman...Hired to defend gangster Art Prochaska against charges that he murdered an informer, lawyer Amanda Jaffe and her father, Frank, have their work cut out for them - because, as improbable as it seems, the forensic clues scream that Prochaska is guilty...And now people are dying inexplicably - as Amanda and Doug join forces to find answers hidden somewhere in the darkest corners of crime scene investigation, where a god - playing madman holds the lethal power to alter the truth.