In The Court's Hands

"If it had rained on the 25th of April at least one woman would not have died. Not that I bear any responsibility for that. Nothing I did intentionally caused anyone's death".

Stenographer Beatrice Barrington witnesses a meeting between the defendant in the criminal case she's working on and a woman who later contacts a member of the jury. Before Beatrice can take any action the juror is found dead.

Still trying to deal with her difficult past, Beatrice is pulled into a world of deception, danger and blackmail. Helped by her friend, retired detective Gabriel Ingram, they are in a race against time to find the truth behind the death of the jury woman before the trial collapses and more people die.

​But will she identify the killer in time?

In the Courts Hands was launched in October 2018 and is available in all good bookshops, from the Poolbeg Press Website and for Kindle.

In The Court's Hands in the media

Sue Leonard, The Irish Examiner - Beginner's Pluck
Sophie Grenham, The Gloss - Writer's Block
Margaret Carragher, The Sunday Independent - Stenographer turns sleuth
Declan Burke, The Irish Times - Crime Landscapes
​Pat O'Rourke, Northside People - New crime novel courts great interest
RTÉ Radio One, Arena - Crime fiction round up