Bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigious Murdaugh family and the shocking murder of its patriarch, Alex Murdaugh, that brought dark secrets to light, resulting in the much-publicized downfall of this Southern legal dynasty.

By all accounts, Thomas Gilbert Jr. led a charmed life. The son of a wealthy hedge fund manager and a financier, he grew up surrounded by a loving family and all the luxury an Upper East Side childhood could provide: education at the elite Buckley School and Deerfield Academy, summers in a sprawling seaside mansion in the Hamptons. He was strikingly handsome, moving with ease through glittering social circles and following in his father's footsteps...