When private investigator Jacob Franks was falsely accused and convicted of murder it left him a little disillusioned about the ‘legal system’ in America. Among other things he learned that the Constitutional guarantee that the accused shall be presumed innocent until proven guilty doesn’t exist anymore – if it ever really did. Did the experience leave him bitter and angry? Maybe a little. Cynical and sarcastic? Absolutely. Stanley Morrison is a thirty-year-old autistic man who has been accused and arrested for the murder of his friend and landlady Joan Cubrik. Stanley’s sister Kate flies in from Seattle and hires Jake to investigate the case. Jake has to admit that the case looks cut and dried. The cops found Stanley at the scene of the crime with a smoking gun near by. But there are still nagging questions in Jake’s mind. Why would a kindly even-tempered man suddenly murder his friend in cold blood? And where did the gun come from in the first place? Did Stanley really kill Joan? If not then who did? And why? With his past brush with the law Jake has his hands full trying to get to the truth while avoiding the cops who are assigned to the case. He won’t be any help to his clients if he goes back to prison.