The Cut Throat Trial

The bestselling author, The Secret Barrister, writes fiction as S. J. Fleet. A junior barrister specializing in criminal law, they write for many publications and are the author of the award-winning The Secret Barrister blog. Their first book,The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken, was aSunday Timesnumber-one bestseller and spent more than a year in the top-ten bestseller list; it won the Books Are My Bag Non-Fiction Award and was shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year and the Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year.Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of LiesandNothing But the Truth: The Memoir of an Unlikely Lawyerwere instantSunday Timestop-ten bestsellers on publication.The Cut Throat Trialis their first novel.The Secret Barrister is a junior barrister specializing in criminal law. They write for many publications and are the author of the award-winning blog of the same name. Their first book,The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken, was aSunday Timesnumber-one bestseller and spent more than a year in the top-ten bestseller list. It won the Books Are My Bag Non-Fiction Award and was shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year and the Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year.Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of LiesandNothing But the Truth: The Memoir of an Unlikely Lawyerwere instantSunday Timestop-ten bestsellers on publication. Writing as S. J. Fleet,The Cut Throat Trialis their first novel.