The Bent Brief

Edwin Hillyard, a disillusioned Suffolk-based lawyer, spends his life dealing with inadequate clients who are constantly moaning about their self-esteem, or his even more inadequate ex-air stewardess wife, Claire, who believes life is all about make-up, mobile phones, trips to the shops â€" and of course Coronation Street.

Feeling frustrated and abused, Hillyard finds diversion in the pursuit of a beautiful Sikh doctor, Jaspreet, whom he meets when called to the scene of a suicide in the London Underground. It is an inauspicious start to the relationship . . .

But Hillyard is not the only one seeking a diversion; his wife Claire has fallen hopelessly in love with an old friend from her flying days, Jessica Howard, an ambitious sexual predator.

As their affairs entwine and jealousy and resentment build on both sides, the ensuing hell starts to blow Hillyard’s life to pieces. When Claire is found dead in their bedroom, Hillyard finds himself on trial for murder.

Was Jessica involved? Will Jaspreet stand by him? Did he kill her? It’s down to the defence and prosecution barristers to battle it out in court . . . and readers will be on the edge of their seats until the very end to find out the truth.

The Bent Brief is written to entertain and compel with its page-turning narrative and fast moving twists and turns. Here is a thriller full to the brim with humour, love, action and suspense, forcing the reader to race to the end. Crime thriller fans will be hooked! The author’s first-hand legal experience has directly informed his novels, making The Bent Brief a vividly realistic read.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Julian Ruck is one of Wales’s most successful living Welsh author’s with some 7,000 copies of his books sold in Wales alone. He was born in Swansea, South Wales. At eighteen he went off to train as a lawyer in London before spending some time in both Denmark and Israel. On his eventual return he entered the world of Academia lecturing law. This was not to be a lifelong commitment as some years later he found himself managing Legal Services Commission Contracts for the Not For Profit Sector. Julian now writes full time in between wandering along beautiful shorelines and trying to give up tobacco. His other novels are Ragged Cliffs, Inheritance Lost and An Equal Judge. For more information about Julian, please visit www.julianruck.co.uk.