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...

'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 Live  ...

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...

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...

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 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 ...

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...

** 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...

With police college a distant memory, Constable Burden quickly becomes one of the most experienced officers on his shift. Just a handful of years separate that awkward, nervous rookie from the professional he has become, and as he revels in his new undeclared status, the variety of incidents he has to face on a daily basis just continues to grow!Patrol alongside Constable Burden through the streets of Cambridge, as he deals with the terrifying, tragic and often unbelievable events ...

You do not have to know anything about the police, but it may harm your understanding of the world you live in if you do not read this book.Arresting 10-year-olds for for stealing sweets… Nicking adults for denying the existence of Santa Claus… Investigating Kelly's ex's new girlfriend's sister's boyfriend's ex for sending her a nasty message on Facebook.These are the things the cops spend their time on (as well as fighting drunk thugs, finding toddlers dead in car crashes ...