After a brilliant military career, esteemed General Thaddeus Carlyon
finally meets his death, not in the frenzy of battle but at an elegant
London dinner party. His demise appears to be the result of a freak
accident, but the general's beautiful wife, Alexandra, readily confesses
that she killed him-a story she clings to even under the threat of the
noose.
Investigator William Monk, nurse Hester Latterly, and brilliant Oliver
Rathbone, counsel for the defense, work feverishly to break down the
wall of silence raised by the accused and her husband's proud family.
With the trial only days away, these there sleuths inch toward the dark
and appalling heart of the mystery.