Death of the Pretty Piranha

When the body of an unidentified woman turns up in a California drainage ditch, two police detectives are called to the scene. Was it a murder, an accident or a suicide?

As they unravel her professional and private life, a trail of her bizarre activities leads them into Bar Association intrigue from the highest echelons of the law profession to the lowest jails and halfway houses. Their investigation probes into the minds and motives of attorney, parolee and family suspects and raises the contemporary question: How far does a person have to fall before he or she breaks apart?