A large, stirring novel of suspense that is, at the same time, a work of brilliantly astute social observation. Set in two privileged worlds, the upper crust African American society of the eastern seaboard and the inner circle of an Ivy League law school, it tells the story of a complex family with a single, seductive link to the shadowlands of crime. Judge Oliver Garland has just died suddenly. A brilliant legal mind, conservative and famously controversial, Judge Garland made more enemies than friends. The Judge's death seems to be leading to a terrible scandal. Could Oliver Garland have been murdered? When another man is found dead, and then another, his son Talcott, a professor of law at a great university, must risk his career, his marriage, and even his life to follow the clues his father left him

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