What Seems True (What Seems True)

In 1980, the first black supervisor at a Texas Gulf Coast refinery turns up dead behind an abandoned drive-in theater. When a Texas Ranger comes to investigate, the refinery's attorney, Dan Esperson, is drawn into the investigation-and into a tangled web of racial conflict, sex, and deception. Two refinery employees are arrested for the murder. One confesses that the other did it but will never testify. When the killer is released from jail for lack of evidence, Dan may be next on his list. Inspired by a solved, but never resolved, true crime on the Texas Gulf Coast in 1979,

What Seems True is a tale of deception, sex, and revenge amid racial and industrial conflict in a gritty industrial setting.