Complex, fascinating, and fun … Kill All the Judges is a classic crime work, from an author heralded as one of Canada’s best, and with good reason.” — Shelf LifeFinalist for the Stephen Leacock Humour PrizeIs someone systematically killing the judges called to the British Columbian bar? At least one has been murdered and several have disappeared. Arthur Beauchamp returns from retirement once again to take on the case, this...

“It’s a surefire winner.” — Publishers WeeklyArthur Beauchamp is mortified. A biography of his early career as a lawyer paints him as a dissolute womanizer. So he sweats over a memoir that he hopes will set the record straight about a headline murder case he fought as a starry-eyed young lawyer in 1966. A trial that seemed bound to mark him as a pathetic loser.The background: a young housemaid is violently sexually assaulted by her employer, a call...

Award–winning novelist William Deverell is back with a new Arthur Beauchamp legal thriller.Lawyer Arthur Beauchamp is facing the most explosive trial of his career: the defence of seven boisterous environmentalists accused of sabotaging an Ontario plant that pumps out a pesticide that has led to the mass death of honeybees. The story zigzags between Toronto, where the trial takes place, and Arthur’s West Coast island home, where he finds himself arrested for fighti...

A new edition of the Arthur Ellis Award winning crime novelArthur Beauchamp, the scholarly, self-doubting legend of the B.C. criminal bar, is enjoying his retirement on B.C.’s Garibaldi Island when he is dragged back to court to defend an old client. Nick “The Owl” Faloon, one of the world’s top jewel thieves, has been accused of raping and murdering a psychologist. Beauchamp has scarcely registered how unlikely it is that the rascally Faloon could commit a savage ...

*Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Mystery Novel, 1998 *Winner of the Dashiell Hammett Award, 1998. Arthur Beauchamp, one of Vancouverrsquo;s most heralded criminal lawyers, has moved to a quiet island off the British Columbia coast. Hersquo;s trying to recover from a marriage gone sour, but his retirement is interrupted by his former law partners - they want Arthur to take charge of the defence trial of Jonathan Orsquo;Donnell, the acting dean of the law school. Orsquo;Donnell has...

The sixth novel in the acclaimed Arthur Beauchamp seriesEverything is going well for Arthur Beauchamp in his early middle age. Life is so good for the top-notch defence lawyer that, in a moment of career restlessness, he decides to switch sides, just the once, and prosecute a young man charged with murdering a clown. Beauchamp is confident he can prove Randolph Skyler is guilty. Confident, but still worried and surprisingly blind to how precarious the evidence is —...

“Smart, beautifully written, and really, really, funny satire featuring Arthur Beauchamp.” –– The Globe and MailFinalist for the Stephen Leacock Humour AwardIn this zany political thriller, the leader of the despotic Asian nation of Bhashyistan declares war on Canada after a limo bearing its visiting delegation is blown sky-high in snowy Ottawa. The suspected assassin, Abzal Erzhan, a Bhashyistani revolutionary, disappears. Was he ...

Arthur P. Besterman, criminal lawyer and reformed alcoholic, was the first to go. Counsel to Vancouver's assorted shifters and grifters, Besterman almost always lost his cases. But a recent victory defending a low-life client might be a clue as to why he was bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat. Then someone takes a pot shot at philandering lawyer Brian Pomeroy after he successfully defends a group of controversial eco-terrorists. All of a sudden lawyers whose clients are less than savo...

Originally published in 2002 and nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime NovelA blend of thriller, satire, and romance with a shocking twistRomance novelist Maggie Schneider flees snowy Canada for Costa Rica, seeking inspiration … and maybe even a romantic encounter. She finds far more than she expected when she’s kidnapped by a rag-tag gang led by a handsome, charismatic revolutionary called Halcon: the Falcon. Also held hostag...

Finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel.“Deverell touches on the evils of the Native residential school system as this literate mystery builds to a surprising solution. Readers will hope they haven’t seen the last of the endearingly complex, fallible, and fascinating Beauchamp.” — Publishers Weekly, starred reviewArthur Beauchamp, after a successful and much-lauded career at the criminal bar, is now retired to Gari...

The toughest case of Beauchamp’s brilliant career features sex, slander, and dirty politicsMontreal journalist Lou Sabatino, under witness protection after nearly being gunned down by the Mafia, is sucked into the quirky world of a conniving Russian dominatrix who has secretly recorded herself putting the whip to the bare bottom of a high-ranking federal cabinet minister.It’s the scoop of the century, but too hot a potato — if Lou breaks the story, he risks...

A prosecutor fights a drug trafficker — and his own heroin addiction — in this thriller from a Dashiell Hammett Prize– and Arthur Ellis Award–winning author“Deverell has a narrative style so lean that scenes and characters seem to explode on the page. He makes the evil of his plot breathtaking and his surprises like shattering glass.” — Philadelphia Bulletin“Spell-binding, first-rate.” — Buffalo News