After winning a not-guilty verdict for client Andrea Hannermill, who had shot and killed her abusive husband, defense attorney Betsy Tannenbaum is hired by the mysterious and powerful Martin Darius.

Dubbed by Time Magazine as one of America's up-and-coming female trial lawyers, Betsy Tannenbaum takes Martin Darius's case, assuring herself of an easy victory in winning his freedom. Martin Darius was arrested for killing three women and one man and burying their bodies on his construction site. Alan Page, district attorney for Multnomah County, has little evidence to go on and little chance to make the charges against Darius stick.

While investigating Martin Darius's case, Besty learns of murders that occurred ten years earlier in Hunter's Point, New York, with the killer using the same M.O.: leaving a black rose and a note saying "Gone, But Not Forgotten" on the pillowcase of each woman who went missing. Those murders were committed by one Peter Lake. It is soon discovered that Martin Darius is none other than Peter Lake. But each time a woman goes missing in Portland, Darius has an alibi and claims someone is setting him up. Could that be true? Is it possible Darius killed the women in Hunter's Point but not the missing women in Portland? And if that is true, who is evil enough to brutally kill for the sake of setting up Darius? And will Darius continue to walk free after the brutal murders he committed ten years earlier in Hunter's Point?

Phillip Margolin is an excellent author and I look forward to reading many more books by him. He writes a great, fast-paced, entertaining legal thriller / suspense.