Five years ago, Don Robak set aside his practice as an attorney to take up a new one, that of judge. But, his wife Jo is suddenly stricken with a strange illness that leaves her robbed of much of her memory, strength, and in need of professional care and leaves Don alone, bereft, and convinced that Jo's illness was a planned attack and not an accident of fate. Though he lacks evidence, Robak has plenty of suspects of whom the major ones include the...

"Spring is blooming in New Chapel, Indiana, but Abby's beloved small town has become a media circus. Singer Cody Verse has returned home after winning and America's Next Hit Single with his song "Code blue." He has brought high-powered lawyer Ken "the Lip" Lipinski with him to fend off a lawsuit from his former songwriting partner. Then the Lip is in need of a code blue himself when he's found dead from a suspicious overdose. Abby finds it hard to...

While trying to extricate a client from the charge of conspiring to kill her husband, Boom must also face his own mortality.

What does a lawyer do when he discovers his client might be guilty of murder after all, withdraw or take the plunge and try to save him anyway? This is the problem facing Andrew Broom of Wyler, Indiana, who is defending a man accused of killing the town's millionaire on a golf course.

Local millionaire Stanley Waggoner's death is complicated by the appearance of a previously unknown young widow and the murder of Andrew Broom's summer intern, Helga Bjornsen.