The Alabaster Lie

In the quiet town of Ashford, revered philanthropist Lord Edmund Croft has built a lifetime of honor upon a single, buried crime. When a routine government benefits review resurrects a name from his past, Croft embarks on a methodical campaign to eliminate every living witness. A weary caseworker at the Bureau of Civic Records, Margaret Teal, begins to notice a thread connecting the sudden deaths, forcing a confrontation between the administrative machinery of justice and the justice owed to the dead.