Investigator Shane Daniels has been kidnapped and told he'll be killed if he doesn't solve a murder for which a man has already been convicted. Gavin Benson was found guilty by a jury of killing the much younger woman he was having an affair with.
Shane's partner, Emma Carstairs searches desperately for him with the help of Ben Chen, Shane's foul-mouthed, politically incorrect childhood friend, but they're not even sure why he was kidnapped. Was it connected to the Benson case or to their foster daughter's upcoming testimony against the leader of a Vietnamese-Canadian criminal organization?
While Shane tries to survive and find a way to escape, he reflects on the murder trial and defence lawyer Jason Burke's ill-fated attempt to prove Benson's innocence.
Did the jury get it wrong? Does Shane need to find the real killer? Is this a murder that needs to be solved twice?