What's Truth Got to do With It?

When an intruder fatally stabs Paul Checkley and inflicts horrific injuries on his wife the police are convinced that Gary Trevors is the culprit even though the evidence is flimsy and circumstantial. Facing a murder charge before a judge who has skeletons of his own rattling in the cupboard, Trevors is defended by the giant QC Ronan Cadogan, a ruthless bully, who is pitched into battle against an ambitious Prosecutor Bertrand Haskett with whom he has a score to settle.

So begins a courtroom drama in which Cadogan seeks to manipulate the judicial process whilst his beautiful Junior Counsel, Naomi Nicholas watches in horror as he tries to reduce the truth to an irrelevance. Who wins? Truth, blackmail corruption or justice? The reader is enthralled to the last page.

A practising QC specialising in criminal cases, David Crigman takes the reader down the inside track, bringing a new dimension to crime fiction.

REVIEWS RECEIVED SO FAR:

"...a fast paced, wickedly entertaining book- with a range of enjoyably flawed minor characters - and a good twist in the tale..."

The Legal Executive Journal November 2006

"for fans of say, Judge John Deed, Cracker and Poirot, this book would be a pleasurable diversion from the goggle-box.I read all 300 pages in no time, thoroughly enjoyed it and will be interested to find out what Naomi did next!" RP The Village November 2006.

David Crigman is a practising QC, specialising in criminal cases - and this is abundantly clear in the narrative. If you want to see the inside track of criminal court procedure you should read this. The opening statement from the surviving victim is chilling in its realism. The procedures and interaction between the characters is authentic, the behind-the-scenes detail convincing.Write Words, Writer's Community

"I didn't guess the twist - it's a particularly good one - and I am not alone. Several of Crigman's legal chums have read the book and they didn't see it coming either." Richard McComb, Birmingham Post