Phillip Margolin

When private detective Dana Cutler is hired by an attorney with powerful political connections, the assignment seems simple enough: follow a pretty college student named Charlotte Walsh and report on where she goes and whom she sees. But then the unexpected happens. One night, Cutler follows Walsh to a secret meeting with Christopher Farrington, the president of the United States. The following morning, Walsh's dead body shows up and Cutler has to...

Attorney Brad Miller, FBI agent Keith Evans, and private investigator Dana Cutler try to untangle a five-year-old case involving a ghost ship and the President's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.