15th February 2025

Junior barrister Adam Green is back, in a second novel that manages to balance comedy and tragedy together in a really engaging read. I raced through the story in about two days - it flows really smoothly and is an easy read.

There’s a few plot lines throughout, and a decent number of references back to the first novel’s conclusion as well. Mainly Green has joined the team defending a celebrity chef who is accused of murdering a TV presenter. This provides a lot of opportunities to drop in little references to real celebrities in these fields, and the author’s clearly using his own experience of television to help paint a believable picture.

But there’s also a lot of character stuff going on as well - we see how Green relates to the women in his life, to authority figures, to people he looks up to, or has looked up to. There’s more going on than just the plot, and I’m intrigued to follow this story more as the series continues.

For the most part, a nice light legal mystery, which I enjoyed spending a couple of days with.

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27th August 2023

The latest twist on the cosy crime genre comes in the form of this legal thriller starring trainee barrister Adam Green.

It’s interesting to read a legal story from a British perspective, after years of reading John Grisham, and I found this a refreshing, and much more relaxing, thing to read.

The mystery is a good one, there’s plenty to discover along with the characters, and a bunch that’s setting things up for sequels.

I found the end a bit rushed, but that’s not entirely unusual for me, as by that point I’m racing through because I’m hooked on the story.

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