OBSESSIONS CAN TURN DEADLY.
Eric Ward has a new client: Dieter Barschell. He’s an ex-professional footballer charged with dealing drugs at a Newcastle racecourse.
Eric secures bail for his client. He also precipitates a murder investigation.
While defending Barschell, Eric antagonizes one of the prosecution witnesses, DCI Charlie Spate.
Can the two men work together to try to resolve this mess?
This time Eric’s client has connections that stretch far beyond Tyneside.
He soon finds himself having to protect a German journalist, Hannah Witt, who believes the case is connected to her homeland.
Will he be able to tie up all the loose ends before more people get hurt?
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“Roy Lewis is a writer who believes in keeping his readers on their toes with plenty of twists and surprises.”
— Daily Telegraph (UK), praise for the author
“Tightly written, well-paced, and relentlessly accurate.”
— Oxford Times, praise for the series“Good on atmosphere.”
— Newcastle Journal, praise for the series“Tense, impressively evocative, and related in a refreshingly old-fashioned manner.”
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Roy Lewis (1933–2019) was a well-established crime writer with more than sixty novels to his name. He lived in the north of England, where he set many of his books. He was a former college principal and Inspector of Schools who ran business training programs and had business interests in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia. His three children are all lawyers. He also wrote books on law under the pen name J. R. Lewis.
John Lee is the winner of numerous Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration. He has twice won acclaim as AudioFile’s Best Voice in Fiction & Classics. He also narrates video games, does voice-over work, and writes plays. He is an accomplished stage actor and has written and coproduced the feature films Breathing Hard and Forfeit. He played Alydon in the 1963–64 Doctor Who serial The Daleks.