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This reader’s introduction to a wonderful new series – combining my very favorite genre (legal thriller) with a wry and playful humor that is irresistible in combination. A sort of Western Canadian “Rumpole of the Bailey”, our hero, Arthur Beauchamp, an aging criminal lawyer enjoying retirement in his BC island home, is scholarly, libidinous, vulnerable and yes, crafty, as he walks the reader through the annals of his casebook. Arthur tells his story, warts and all, with no-holds barred, as he introduces the reader to his draft of a memoir that will reveal the details of perhaps his most infamous case – his 1966 defense of a pious Filipino housemaid, victimized by her abusive employer, who has been murdered by a deadly accurate single rifle shot.

Nobody’s fool, young Arthur has plenty of tricks up his legally-astute sleeves, as he reveals courtroom antics and strategy, rivalry with his less-than-capable prosecutional adversary, cat-and-mouse interplay with a curmudgeonly and spiteful judge, misfirings of the romantic sort, and fascinating narrative details that may or may not add up in his clients favor.

I love, loved this book, the ninth in a series that now begs to be read, in its entirety.

A great big thank you to the publisher #ECWpress for an ARC of this book, and a long-overdue welcome to this author and series. All thoughts presented are my own.