[top shoutline] 'Vivid and exciting' The Times

She was found hanging with a blood orange in her mouth. For the prosecution, Diane Heybridge's apparent suicide is just a bungled murder. Her jilted partner Brent Stainsby stands accused of her killing and he's turned to the mavericks Benson and de Vere to defend him.

As the Old Bailey trial unfolds, it transpires there's more to Diane than meets the eye. She wasn't the downtrodden victim being presented to the jury. And the defendant isn't who he seems to be either. He's a desperate man playing a deadly game of poker with the judicial process. What began as a straightforward trial rapidly turns into a nail-biting search for a dangerous truth ...


'Assured storytelling and highly intriguing moral complexity. I tore through it' Chris Brookmyre


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