We are delighted to announce that we have signed the twelfth book in the Charles Holborne Legal Thrillers series by Simon Michael: gritty, hard-boiled mysteries set in 1960s London and featuring maverick barrister Charles Holborne.
Here, Simon tells us what to expect from the latest instalment:
“Book twelve sees a return to the London courts for Charles Holborne. In many ways this case is the most shocking of those I have fictionalised, and it happened recently to some of my own clients. It involves the prosecution of an eminent, well-respected surgeon who misuses his bedside manner in order to play God with the lives of his patients, maiming — and in some cases — killing them.
“Despite all the dangers to which Charles was exposed in the earlier books in the series, from the Kray twins and other gangsters, in many ways he is more at risk in this book than in any other. The stakes get higher and higher until the point where everything he has — his practice, his reputation and his marriage — are on the line. It resolves some long-standing story and character arcs with which existing fans will be very familiar.
“My relationship with Sapere Books has lasted eleven books and over a decade. If this is to be the last Charles Holborne adventure — at least for a while — it is only fitting that Sapere Books should be the team to publish it.”
The Charles Holborne Legal Thrillers series is available from Amazon now.
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Congratulations to Simon Michael, whose exciting legal thriller, Death, Adjourned, is published today!
Death, Adjourned is the ninth crime novel in the Charles Holborne Legal Thrillers series — gritty, hard-boiled mysteries set in 1960s London.
London, 1969
The Kray twins, the nemeses of Charles Holborne, barrister, are finally convicted of multiple murders and sent away for the longest prison terms ever imposed by a British court.
But with London in the grip of a housing crisis and unscrupulous landlords hiking rents, there are new ruthless enforcers terrorising destitute East Enders.
When a tenant dies during a violent altercation with bailiffs, Charles is instructed to represent the businessmen charged with conspiracy to murder. There is motive, an eyewitness and a confession – seemingly an open and shut case.
But Charles suspects his clients are pawns in a much more dangerous game being played by shadowy Establishment figures.
But are his instincts wrong this time? Is he being manipulated into defending a guilty man?
And as dark secrets are revealed, will he have to choose between moral integrity and professional success?
Congratulations to Simon Michael, whose page-turning gangland thriller, Nothing But The Truth, is published today! Nothing But The Truth is the eighth book in the Charles Holborne Legal Thrillers series.
London, 1967
The psychopathic Kray twins rule London’s underworld, aided by their government connections, corrupt police and extreme violence.
Finally, Detective Superintendent “Nipper” Read’s taskforce has a chance to take them down.
The catch: Read needs barrister Charles Holborne to testify against them, while the Krays have evidence against him which would end his career and send him to prison.
Caught in the middle, and with his pregnant partner’s life and his career at stake, this time Charles has no choices left.
Can Charles put his past behind him once and for all? Will the Krays twins’ criminal hold over London finally be put to an end?
Or will everything come crashing down for Charles Holborne…?
