Authorpreneur Dashboard – Tim Vicary
A Game of Proof
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
A mother's worst nightmare - can her son be guilty of murder? Sarah Newby, who left school at 15, and was living as a teenage single parent on an inner-city estate, has worked her way up to begin a career as a criminal barrister. But what should she do when her own son, Simon, is arrested and charged with a series of brutal rapes and murders? Has Sarah, in her single-minded determination to create a career for herself, neglected her son so much that she no longer knows him? He has often lied to her in the past, so how can she trust him when he says he is innocent this time? And what should she do when she herself uncovers evidence that seems to suggest his guilt?
Book Bubbles from A Game of Proof
Introducing Sarah Newby
Sarah Newby is an independent barrister - a British trial lawyer. She is the main character of a legal thriller series which some readers have kindly compared to the works of John Grisham and Michael Connelly, but set in a British context. Sarah has fought her way up from a tough innercity area in Leeds, in the north of England. She was a teenage single mother who left school at fifteen, and only through her own fierce determination has she managed to scrape herself an education and a career in the fiercely competitive world of criminal law. In this extract we see her in court facing what seems like an impossible case - defending a brutal, unpleasant man accused of raping a single mother, a woman very like Sarah herself. Yet although she is disgusted by her client - who is also suspected of several murders - it is her job to defend him, and that is what she intends to do. Read on to see how she copes with this , and what happens next.
