The Emperor of Ocean Park

Created by Sherman Payne

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A legal mystery grounded in family suspicion and institutional power, where a professor's orderly life unravels into questions of conspiracy and justice.

In the worlds of politics, academia, and the beaches of Martha’s Vineyard, Talcott Garland is an Ivy League law professor whose quiet life is shattered when his father, Judge Oliver Garland, dies of an apparent heart attack. The nature of the judge’s death is questioned by Tal’s sister, Mariah, a former journalist and inveterate conspiracy theorist, who believes that the judge, a failed Black nominee to the Supreme Court, met with foul play.