Last Act

Barrister Peter Gaunt made his reputation with the flamboyant if unsuccessful defense of Joseph Barton, accused of strangling his wife. Yarmouth Police Commissioner McCloud also advanced his career with the case. But both men find their faith in the law shaken when, years later, another woman is found dead in the same strange circumstances as Mrs. Barton.

A lawyer goes back to Yarmouth, the town where he started working, and can't stop thinking about a murder that was never really solved. When someone else gets killed, he starts to think the courts got it wrong and they executed an innocent man for the first murder. The more he looks into it, the more people in town start wondering what really happened back then.

A barrister returns to Yarmouth, where he began his career, and is haunted by the memory of an unsolved murder. When a new murder occurs, he suspects that the justice system may have failed and that the man hanged for the first crime was innocent. As he digs deeper, the town begins to question the past.