The King of Lies

Jackson Workman Pickens - known to most as "Work" - mindlessly holds together his disintegrating life: a failing law practice left to him when his father, Ezra, mysteriously disappeared, a distant wife who shares their loveless marriage, and an estranged sister who bore the brunt of their childhood trauma. &nbsp And then Ezra's body is discovered. &nbsp Set to inherit his father's fortune, Work becomes a prime suspect.&nbsp But so does his sister, Jean.&nbsp As much as Work's life was overshadowed by his domineering father, Jean's life was nearly destroyed by him. But does that make her capable of a vicious murder?&nbsp Fearing the worst, Work launches his own investigation, crossing paths with a power-hungry detective, a string of damning evidence, and the ugly rumors that swirl within his small, moneyed Southern town. &nbsp Desperate for the redemption that has eluded him for so many years and stripped of everything he once valued, he fights to save his sister and clear his name - in this poignant and thrilling anatomy of a murder and its ripple effect within a family and a community.