Nicola Williams

The gripping new courtroom thriller following barrister Lee Mitchell in her most controversial case yet Lee Mitchell is a young barrister from a working-class Caribbean background: in the cut-throat environment of the courtroom everything is stacked against her. On her doorstep in South London the 15-year-old son of the pastor at the local Black church is shot and the local community is shattered. All evidence is pointing to infamously corrupt racist police officer Sergeant Jack Lambert as the irredeemable suspect. His own boss - rebel-turned-copper Danny Wallace - is certain he is guilty.

Against her will Lee is strong-armed into defending him. With cries of 'Black Lives Matter!' echoing in the streets Lee is at the centre of the turmoil as lies anger and mistrust spiral out of control. With the line between her personal and professional life becoming increasingly blurred Lee keeps asking herself the same question: How can she defend the indefensible?

A gripping, propulsive courtroom thriller following barrister Lee Mitchell as she uncovers the dark secrets of London's obscenely rich.

Lee Mitchell is a thirty-year-old barrister from a working-class Caribbean background: in the cut-throat environment of the courtroom, everything is stacked against her. After she takes on the high-profile case of notorious millionaire playboy Clive Omartian - arrested along with his father and stepbrother for eye-wateringly exorbitant fraud - the line between her personal and professional life becomes dangerously blurred. Spiralling further into Clive's trail of debauchery and corruption, she finds herself in alarmingly deep waters. Can she survive her case, let alone win it?