Gabriel attends a glitzy cocktail party, the last thing he expects to witness is the murder of his friend Dylan Rees. In an effort to save his friend he hears his last words, which make no sense, but earlier that evening Dylan had said that he had a story to tell Nic that would pique his interest. The only clue he gave Nic was ‘dead lawyers’ and he chanted ‘The rich man who burned in paradise’. ‘The giant who chopped himself in half.’.
Although, there is no doubt of the identity of the murderer of his friend, Nic is struck by the coincidence of his friend’s murder just as he is about to impart information relating to earlier deaths of lawyers, and Nic is suspicious of the circumstances behind the killing.
Nic Gabriel is a writer, well currently a one book author, and his publishers and his girl friend are despairing of him ever writing again. Nic, however, is only keen to write when he is possessed to tell a story!
His investigations lead to Creed, a firm of solicitors who are the country’s leading human rights law firm, that boast the slogan ‘Lawyers who are different’, and here he encounters Roxanne Wake, and Roxanne has her own secrets.
The story is told from the points of view of both Nic Gabreiel and Roxanne Wake and inexorably these characters collide at the end of the book.
I so enjoy this style of book, where we are witness to multiple characters with secrets that slowly unfold as we progress through the story. On the surface the murderer is unmasked but there is a psychological twist, which may have you guessing..
There is no indication that this is a series, but a separate unrelated mystery
is left unresolved and I am keen to know about this. So hopefully there is another
book in the offing!
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Lizzie Hayes Martin Edwards is the author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin
series