Private Prosecution
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TextPublisher: Australia : Fremantle Press, 2021Description: 248 pages: 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781925816730Summary: Written by lawyer-turned-writer Lisa Ellery, Craig Sisterson calls Private Prosecution 'a superb debut written with personality and pace, from an arresting new voice in Australian crime'. Andrew Deacon is young, fit and single, a junior prosecutor at the WA DPP with a bright future and a sense of entitlement to match. That future starts to look darker when he spends the night with an attractive stranger, Lily Constantine, and she is found murdered in her apartment the following day. Based on a conversation with Lil, Andrew believes he knows who killed her - a senior Western Australian criminal law barrister, Sam Godfrey SC, who is also Lil's brother-in-law. Andrew tells the police everything he knows, but his quest to bring Godfrey to justice provokes retaliation and soon Andrew is on the run, with no way forward but to prove Godfrey's guilt.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| z Adult Fiction | Northam | F ELL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111083268266 |
Due to be published August 2021.
Written by lawyer-turned-writer Lisa Ellery, Craig Sisterson calls Private Prosecution 'a superb debut written with personality and pace, from an arresting new voice in Australian crime'. Andrew Deacon is young, fit and single, a junior prosecutor at the WA DPP with a bright future and a sense of entitlement to match. That future starts to look darker when he spends the night with an attractive stranger, Lily Constantine, and she is found murdered in her apartment the following day. Based on a conversation with Lil, Andrew believes he knows who killed her - a senior Western Australian criminal law barrister, Sam Godfrey SC, who is also Lil's brother-in-law. Andrew tells the police everything he knows, but his quest to bring Godfrey to justice provokes retaliation and soon Andrew is on the run, with no way forward but to prove Godfrey's guilt.
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