Jackson Workman Pickens
- ' Work' to his friends
- an unambitious lawyer in a small Southern town has some serious baggage. His mother died a year ago from a 'fall' down the family's colonial staircase & his father Ezra has been missing ever since. Work is left to deal with his psychologically damaged sister his father's legal caseload & his own rocky marriage. Power & greed bring many enemies especially for a man as cruel as Ezra Pickens so when his body turns up pretty much everyone in town is a suspect
- but only one man is charged with the murder... With time his wife & public opinion against him Work embarks on his toughest case yet: proving his own innocence. His investigation will uncover a web of intrigue he could never have imagined
- & he soon realises that no one is above suspicion
- even those he loves most.