Crime Does Not Pay #106

Attorney Ellis Gorman abandons his principles to take on a high-profile criminal as a client, manipulating a trial to free a guilty man—but his descent into corruption puts everything he values most in jeopardy when the criminal turns his attention toward Ellis's younger sister. As Ellis's moral compromise deepens, he discovers that crossing the wrong people carries consequences far beyond the courtroom.

When crime boss Abby Grant faces tax troubles thanks to reporter Gil Barnett's exposé, he hatches an elaborate scheme to frame the newsman for murder—but his desperation to silence both Barnett and the bookkeeper who turned him in sets in motion a cunning double-cross that threatens to collapse under its own weight. As Grant plants evidence and orchestrates a killing to pin on his nemesis, Barnett finds himself arrested and forced into a dangerous situation that will test whether the truth can surface before justice goes terribly wrong.