"No one mourned when San Francisco DA Wes Farrell put Paul Riley in prison eleven years ago for the rape and murder of his girlfriend. And no one is particularly happy to see him again when he's released after the Exoneration Initiative uncovered evidence that pinned the crime on someone else. In fact, Riley soon turns up murdered, surrounded by the loot from his latest scam. But if Riley was really innocent all along, who would want him dead? To the cops, it's straightforward: the still-grieving father of Riley's dead girlfriend killed the former prisoner. Farrell, now out of politics and practicing law with master attorney Dismas Hardy, agrees to represent the defendant, Doug Rush--and is left in the dust when Rush suddenly vanishes. At a loss, Farrell recruits Hardy and PI Abe Glitsky to track down the potentially lethal defendant ... but will they find him alive? As Glitsky enters an investigative funhouse populated by wounded parents, crooked cops, and cheating spouses, he stumbles into one enticing theory after another. Yet the truth seems to recede ever further. So far, in fact, that he begins to question his own moral compass ..."-- Provided by publisher.