Reformed gangster Jack Robinson knows police will suspect him when Hayden Norcross, the man who nearly ruined his wife, is shot. But a man as unlikeable as Hayden has more than enough enemies, a few in the upper echelon as well as the squalid areas of the city. Daughter of the Decker family, Sarah and Investigator Frank have their work cut out for them. They find that Hayden had a host of unsavory habits that may have hastened his demise. But who killed him? Sarah and Frank must put the pieces together quickly before time runs out and Jack's hard-won new life and family are ripped apart.