In a city of saints and sinners, everybody is guilty of something. The victim was young, lovely and seduced by the wrong man. Just hours before her wedding, the fiancé of real estate mogul J.P. Stratton is found strangled in her penthouse. New Orleans homicide detective Charlotte 'Charlie' Le Blanc views the crime scene, finding a black silk stocking draped casually beside the body.
This clue leads Charlie into a world of privilege, and before long, she singles out a suspect whose identity creates a furore: Cole Stratton, J.P.'s estranged son. But what she doesn't know is that Cole has been set up, and while she's trying to prove Cole's guilt, a real killer is on the loose, a man who now has Charlie in his sights, a man with a black silk stocking
