Brian remarried, moved downstate to Grosse Pointe and started a new family. Six years later, an ambitious prosecutor finds new evidence and hunts Brian down. The police burst into Brian's house while he's decorating the Christmas tree with his new wife and their five-year-old daughter. They haul him away charge him first degree murder. Burr Lafayette, the deposed head of a major Detroit law firm, is recruited by his beautiful ex-girlfriend to defend Brian. A man at loose ends, Burr prefers dogs, boats, women and wine to clients and courtrooms. But he's a brilliant litigator. He discovers there are more secrets than Brian ever let on. Just as he's about to solve the murder, Burr's own life is threatened.