4 Stars from me
This is truly shaping up to be a delightful series featuring Adam Green who is a slightly downtrodden, newly qualified barrister.
Although he seems to have matured a little since The Trial and The Suspect, Adam still seems somewhat unaware of flirtation and diligently rings his mother who blatantly pumps him for information about what he is eating, who he is dating and juicy tit-bits about the case.
The case in this one looks to be a done deal with Lexi, an activist with the Stop the War campaign, murdering a famous artist by spraying cyanide laced blue paint in his face. Despite the artist being someone that seemingly everyone loved to hate, the whole room saw Lexi kill him, didn’t they?
Our modest hero Adam doesn’t shy away from a challenge, from hard work, or from an unpopular decision. He is such a likeable character and I love who Rob Rinder has developed his growing confidence – even with the ladies – although my favourite interactions are still the ones with his mum!
Great series and I love the writing style.
My thanks to Netgalley, the author and Random House UK for an ARC in return for an honest review.
Blurb: A world-famous artist. A fatal brush with death.
At a star-studded opening night for the Royal Academy’s celebration of renowned artist Max Bruce, someone is hiding a dark secret.
As the night reaches its climax and Max addresses his admirers, the occasion takes a shocking turn when a protester runs from the crowd and sprays the artist with blue paint.
Max collapses and it soon turns out that the paint was laced with cyanide. Someone has been plotting to kill him.
All evidence points to the protestor – and newly qualified barrister Adam Green is assigned the impossible task of their defence.
But could there be others who wanted Max dead?
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