Assistant DA Cooper is drawn into the case of a businessman charged with murdering his young wife, and she finds the complexities of the crime overlap with an explosion at a city project designed to create a huge new underground water tunnel.

1910: Twenty-five-year-old Daniel Pitt is a junior barrister in London and eager to prove himself, independent of his renowned detective father's influence. And the new case before him will be the test. When his client, arrogant biographer Russell Graves, is found guilty of murdering his wife, Daniel is dispatched by his superior to find the real killer before Graves faces the hangman's noose -- in only twenty-one days. Could the violent death have...