One Law For the Rest of Us

Peter Murphy

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Two generations of abuse… one shocking conspiracy… a woman determined to expose it all

When Audrey Marshall sends her daughter Emily to the religious boarding school where she herself was educated a generation before, memories return – memories of a culture of child sexual abuse presided over by a highly-regarded priest. Audrey turns to barrister Ben Schroeder in search of justice for Emily and herself. But there are powerful men involved, men determined to protect themselves at all costs. . .

Category: Crime and mystery fiction

Paperback

RRP: £9.99

ISBN: 9780857301406

Published: December 13, 2018

Extent: 352 pages

Ebook

RRP: £4.99

ISBN: 9780857301413

Published: December 13, 2018

Reviews

One Law For the Rest of Us combines a forensically accurate historical perspective with some of the most topical contemporary issues

Barrister

‘The trial(s) rattle along at a good pace and in the end a form of justice is done’

Dave Wurtzel , Counsel Magazine

‘Murphy paints a trenchant picture of establishment cover-up, and cannily subverts the clichÃ©s of the legal genre in his all-too-topical narrative’

Financial Times

‘This story is a serious legal court room read, there are various legal aspects that are intense, it follows the fight for justice’

Yvonne Bastian , NetGalley

‘There is a suitably dastardly solicitor and barrister opposing, providing plenty of fiery exchanges’

Chris Roberts , CrimeReview

Peter Murphy

Born in 1946, Peter Murphy graduated from Cambridge University and pursued a career in the law in England, the United States and The Hague. He practised as a barrister in London for a decade, then took up a professorship at a law school in Texas, a position he held for more than twenty years. Towards the end of that period he returned to Europe as counsel at the Yugoslavian War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague for almost a decade. In 2007 he returned to England to take up an appointment as a judge of the Crown Court. He retired as …

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