When Hannah Cohen spots a fabulous golden jewelled pendant, taken from her when she was a child in Nazi occupied Poland, now adorning the daughter in law of one of New York's foremost families, she wants it back, even if that means trawling through the courtrooms of Manhattan in two sensational trials - one civil, to reclaim the pendant, that will take her on an unforgettable journey into the heart of darkness - the other, criminal; the murder trial of her own attorney.

Two trials linked by murder. And two attorneys - Jonas Calver, facing the frame for a killing he had no part in, and rookie civil lawyer, Morganna Fedler, desperate to show the world what she can do in a courtroom. And then there's Courtney Pascal, the prickly and unpredictable investigator who Calver must reach out to from his jail cell on Rikers for a last chance at taking down the one-eyed man who put him there.