Brian Dunn killed his wife while he was cleaning his deer rifle in their Petoskey, Michigan, home. The police thought it was an accident. But was it? Brian remarried, moved downstate to Grosse Pointe, and started a new family. Six years later, an ambitious prosecutor finds new evidence and hunts him down. The police burst into Brian's house while he's decorating the Christmas tree with his new wife and their five-year-old and charges him with 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 over a courtroom, but he's a brilliant litigator. He discovers there are more secrets than Brian ever let on, and the case turns out to be more than a murder trial. Just as he is about to solve the murder, Burr's own life is in threatened. A legal thriller with larger-than-life characters and a town too small for its secrets, The Crooked Angel is Anatomy of a Murder and The Thin Man rolled into one. This is the fourth book in the Burr Lafayette mystery series. Past titles include The Pink Pony, The Gray Drake and Bear Bones.