Mickey Haller takes on Julian La Cosse's murder case as new autopsy findings change everything: Gloria Dayton was alive when the fire started, meaning smoke inhalation — not strangulation — was the cause of death. The prosecution adds special circumstances, eliminating bail, and turns Mickey's own timeline argument against the defense. Lorna pulls Hector Moya's federal record and finds a life sentence tied to a triple homicide weapon — a motive that has had years to harden. Cisco's review of Roosevelt hotel footage reveals an unidentified man who tracked Gloria out of the lobby while keeping his face off every camera, following her to a car with unreadable plates. Mickey also learns that Gloria herself warned a friend never to contact him, believing that Mickey knowing she was still in Los Angeles would unravel something in her cooperation arrang ...