It was a CRIME so BRUTAL it changed the lives of even the most hardened HOMICIDE cops. The Haas family MURDERS left a scar on the COMMUNITY that nothing can ERASE, but everyone agrees CONVICTING the alleged KILLER would be a start. Then JUDGE Carey Moore rules that PREVIOUS convictions are INADMISSIBLE in COURT, causing a public OUTCRY - and putting the JUDGE in grave DANGER.
When Moore is attacked, Detectives Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska are called in to investigate, and keep the judge from further harm. But when Moore is abducted, snatched out of her bed even as the police sit outside watching her house, Kovac and Liska are faced with a list of suspects, including the stepson of a murder victim and a rogue cop, where no one is who they seem, and everyone is guilty of something...