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Blind Defence

ebook / ISBN-13: 9781408708774

Price: £9.99

ON SALE: 5th April 2018

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Crime & Mystery

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‘Vivid and exciting’ The Times

WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MASQUE

She was found hanging in a dingy London bedsit with a blood orange in her mouth. Diane Heybridge, a young woman without a past or much of a future, has captured in death the compassion denied her in life.

For the prosecution, this seeming suicide is nothing more than a bungled killing and a disgusted public looks to Court 2 of the Old Bailey for justice. Her callous, jilted partner Brent Stainsby stands accused of her murder and he’s turned to the maverick legal team William Benson and Tess de Vere to defend him.

However, as the trial unfolds it soon becomes clear that there is far more to Diane Heybridge than meets the eye. She wasn’t the weak and downtrodden victim now being presented to the jury. She was capable of a sophisticated form of vengeance. By the same token, Brent Stainsby isn’t who he seems to be either. He’s hiding a motive for murder unknown to the police and may well be playing a deadly game of poker with the judicial process. What began as a simple trial rapidly turns into a complex search for the truth beyond the confines of the courtroom…

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Reviews

The courtroom scenes are brilliant, and Benson really comes alive under pressure. Stubborn, fitful and contradictory, he's a highly individualised creation
Spectator
Assured storytelling and highly intriguing moral complexity. I tore through it
Chris Brookmyre
I hope John Fairfax is planning a long series involving Benson. [An] excellent legal thriller
Literary Review
Vivid and exciting, and the novel raises some important issues to do with prisons and the ethics of the legal system
Marcel Berlins, The Times
A good mystery, meaty courtroom drama, the ongoing puzzle of Benson's own history and some knowledgeable assaults on the Tories' policy of justice on the cheap add up to a great read
Morning Star
Punchy dialogue and devious plotlines . . . compelling
The Times