Imprint: No Exit Press

Category: Crime and mystery fiction

Series: A Ben Schroeder Legal Thriller

Verbal

Peter Murphy

‘A good police force is one that catches more crooks than it employs’ – Sir Robert Mark

‘A good police force is one that catches more crooks than it employs’ – Sir Robert Mark

A clever, accomplished Cambridge graduate with a good job and an attentive lover, Imogen Lester seems to have the world at her feet. But when her parents are murdered abroad while working for the Diplomatic Service, she is suddenly thrown headlong into a murky world of espionage and organised crime.

When she is charged with drug trafficking, even Ben Schroeder’s skills may not be enough to save her – unless a shadowy figure from Ben’s past can survive long enough to unmask a web of graft and corruption…

Paperback

RRP: £9.99

ISBN: 9780857304247

Published: December 10, 2020

Extent: 352 pages

Ebook

RRP: £1.99

ISBN: 9780857304254

Published: June 24, 2020

Reviews

‘Peter Murphy has created in barrister Ben Schroeder a character whose adventures in and out of court hold a mirror up to life at the bar in the 1960s and 70s’

Barrister , ICLR

‘a rich, complex tale of organized crime and corruption, peopled by characters I wanted to cheer or boo’

Lizzie , promotingcrime.blogspot.com

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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