Description
The turn of the 20th Century is a time of change in London and barrister Gabriel Ward, who lives at the Inner Temple in London and rarely leaves his rooms, one day finds the Lord Chief Justice of England dead at the doorstep to the courtrooms; exactly on the day when Ward is meant to argue the disputed authorship of a bestselling book. The police have trouble investigating the murder in the Inner Temple as they are only allowed into the facility with the permission of the lawyers and judges, and even then, it is begrudgingly. Ward soon realizes that it may come to him to find the killer, especially if it may be one of his own colleagues or a fellow judge who was jealous of the Lord Chief Justice of England. Ward soon realizes that investigations do not follow the logic of a court case and that secrets are being hidden that want to stay secret.
A decent book, but one in which the main character, Ward, kind of gets on the readers’ nerves fairly quickly. Not sure if it’s his Vulcan-like attitude toward humanity or his seemingly autistic nature.
