'Extraordinary... a great autobiography - Libby Purves, Radio 4 Midweek'Hugely entertaining, heartwarming and inspiring... made me guffaw.' - Mail on Sunday'Riotous… unvarnished candour' - Daily Telegraph'A compelling delight' - Daily Mail'Gary Bell is one of Britain's leading criminal barristers. He's also got one of the most interesting CVs I have ever seen.' - Sarah Brett, BBC Radio Five LiveGARY BELL QC is one of B...

The first novel in a thrilling new legal series, perfect for fans of Steve Cavanagh, John Grisham and Robert Galbraith, written by an acclaimed QC.Elliot Rook QC is one of the greatest barristers of his generation.He is also a complete fraud.Elliot Rook is the epitome of a highly successful, old Etonian QC. Or so everyone believes. In fact, he is an ex-petty criminal with a past that he has spent decades keeping secret. Until now…An unid...

Perfect for fans of The Secret Barrister and Tony Kent.Can Rook keep his criminal past a secret when facing the most dangerous case of his life?Thirteen men have died in a London prison. Barrister Elliot Rook QC, who risks losing everything if his secret criminal past is revealed, must defend Charli Meadows, the vulnerable single mother accused of smuggling the deadly tainted drugs inside.But just as Rook becomes su...

Levi Bellfield was an English serial killer—dubbed the "Bus Stop Killer"—because of his practice of staking out bus stops to find his victims; usually young blonde women who he would then stalk after they rejected him while they walked home before attacking them with a hammer. One victim, Kate Sheedy, did not like the looks of Bellfield or his vehicle and attempted to cross the street to get away. She was subsequently run over by Bellfield—twice. Bellfield was ultimately convicted of killi...

Exploring the three levels of project management, this edited collection analyses the practice of problem structuring approaches (PSAs) with an aim to improve organisational adaptability and value creation. By studying these approaches, the authors present techniques for enhancing project management knowledge, informing decision-making and guiding management actions. This book is an insightful and timely read, as it addresses the need for organisations to adapt in order to tackle new chall...

This is the story of a football club that, in the 1990s, harboured the UK's biggest white-collar fraudster. This same club was almost bought by someone who couldn't decide whether to be a man or a woman. It also had as chairman a man subject to an international arrest warrant, then another chairman who remains to this day a fugitive from the law, who in turn was succeeded by a man with connections to Libyan arms dealers. To this ensemble make space for the Gurkha Regiment, Interpol, the 'Rat ...

Bloomsbury presents Beyond Reasonable Doubt by Gary Bell, read by Hugh Kermode.LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD 2020The start of a thrilling new legal series, perfect for fans of Robert Galbraith and The Secret Barrister, written by an acclaimed QC.Elliot Rook QC is one of the greatest barristers of his generation.He is also a complete fraud.Elliot Rook is the epitome of a highly successful, old Etonian QC. Or so everyone believes. In fact, h...

Bloomsbury presents Post Mortem by Gary Bell, read by Hugh Kermode.Can Rook keep his criminal past a secret when facing the most dangerous case of his life?Thirteen men have died in a London prison. Barrister Elliot Rook QC, who risks losing everything if his secret criminal past is revealed, must defend Charli Meadows, the vulnerable single mother accused of smuggling the deadly tainted drugs inside.But just as Rook becomes suspicious of those closest to Charli, a ...

'Well plotted and page turning' - Patricia Gibney'A tense, fast-paced, and deftly plotted thriller, which kept me guessing right to the end. I'm already looking forward to the next outing for Detective Sergeant Lucy Golden and her crew!'- Andrea CarterSometimes darkness stalks the most beautiful places...On Doogort East Bog, Achill Island, a body is found. The close community is stunned to learn that it's Lisa Moran, a popular teacher who disappeare...

She doesn't trust the police. She used to be one of them. Hardened by ten years on the murder squad, DNA analyst Doctor Sian Love has seen it all. So when she finds human remains in the basement of her new home, she knows the drill. Except this time it's different. This time, it's personal. . .

** A WATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE MONTH **** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD **'One of the Scottish crime books of the year. I loved it' CHRIS BROOKMYRE'Heart-warming, heart-breaking and utterly compelling' MARION TODD'Excellent' HERALDTHE GREATEST DANGERS LIE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS...Twelve-year-old Lesley has lived i...

Florida: a land of dazzling white sands, sizzling sun... and utterly incompetent British criminals.Like the British woman who hijacked a helicopter to bust her husband out of Death Row, the Scottish gap year student who robbed a bank and tried to escape on a kid's bike and the unlucky Londoner who kidnapped the wrong guy and wound up serving 1,285 years in jail.As British consul in our nation’s favourite holiday hotspot, Hugh Hunter has seen them all – murderers, small-time...