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The Cut Throat Trial

The Cut Throat Trial

by S. J. Fleet

Publisher Picador

Genre: Crime

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THE FIRST LEGAL THRILLER FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING SECRET BARRISTER WRITING AS S. J. FLEET

'An astute, empathetic, and satisfyingly twisty read' - Sarah Vaughan, author of Anatomy of a Scandal and Reputation

'A diamond class legal thriller . . . I loved every moment. Five stars' - Janice Hallett, author of The Twyford Code and The Examiner
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It is one of the biggest trials of the year. Three seventeen-year-old boys are accused of the brutal murder of an elderly teacher on New Year's Eve.

Each boy denies it.
Each points the finger at the other two.
But they can’t all be innocent.

The three defence barristers have only one job: to persuade the jury that their client is not guilty. But they’re up against a prosecutor who needs to win the case, no matter the cost.

Because when the game is murder, the competition is deadly.

Launching a brilliant new voice in crime fiction, a criminal barrister with an incomparable insider’s knowledge, The Cut Throat Trial is the most gripping thriller of the year.

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About the Author

S. J. Fleet

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.

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