Take My Breath Away by
Martin Edwards
hbk out May 02
Published by Allison Busby
at £17.99
Nic Gabriel, a lawyer turned writer who has published a book arguing Dr
Crippen's innocence, is alerted by friend Dylan Rees to a trail of
mysterious deaths in the London legal world: the rich man who burned in
paradise, the giant who chopped himself in half, the boy who died of shock.
Dylan promises to reveal all at a party but, as Nic arrives and before he
can learn more, Dylan is brutally and publicly murdered and his assailant
dies soon after. Is this another death in the series? Are all the deaths
coincidental or is someone deliberately killing lawyers? What connects the
victims? What motive lies behind the murders? Meanwhile young paralegal
Roxanne Wake is starting work at top civil liberties firm, Creed. It's a
terrific career opportunity but Roxanne has a past, a deadly secret, one she
intends to keep well-hidden at any cost. When Roxanne finds that someone is
on her trail she determines to use fair means or foul to protect her new
life from destruction.
A departure from Edward's Liverpool-based Harry Devlin series, the author, a
lawyer himself, writes with authenticity about the capital's legal scene and
skilfully unravels not one but a whole clutch of intriguing mysteries. A
confident psychological thriller with a startling resolution.
Manchester Evening News 22.6.02
(
Cath Staincliffe
author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries set on the mean streets of Manchester)
