- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s
Sequel to The Brief (although can be read as a standalone): maverick barrister, Charles Holborne, may have just escaped hanging by proving he was framed for murder, but his life is now in ruins. His wife is dead, his...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1964
A sordid secret lies at the heart of political London… London, 1964, Charles Holborne has cemented his reputation as a successful murder trial lawyer, But in trying to save an innocent child, he finds himself investigating a sex ring...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1969
London, 1969 With the Kray twins incarcerated for 30 years, ex-boxer, ex-criminal and now successful barrister Childs Holborne seems to have checkmated his childhood adversaries. But with thousands of EastEnders crammed into Dickensian slum housing, there are even more...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1965
On the face of it, representing a widow in an accidental death case should be routine. Sergeant Maynard, Royal Air Force policeman, died in a simple motorcycle accident. The problem is, Mrs Maynard insists her husband was murdered. Sceptical...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1968
Superintendent “Nipper” Read is that rarest of things: an honest Metropolitan police copper. His task force can bring down the Kray twins. The catch: Read needs barrister Charles Holborne to testify against them, while the Krays have evidence against...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s
Charles Holborne, ne Horowitz, is an East End boy with a past – an ex-boxer and ex-criminal – who becomes a West End boy when he qualifies as a barrister. Now he’s trapped between two worlds and fits in...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1966
They think it’s all over… London, 1966 It’s the eve of the World Cup Final and everyone in England holds their breath – everyone except the Kray twins. The kings of London’s gangland have their minds elsewhere, on the...
- Location(s): East London
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s
Psychopathic gangster Ronnie Kray has a “List” of persons who have “taken liberties” and who are to be disposed of, and now East End barrister Charles Holborne finds his name at the top of the list. He can’t spend...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1965
A deadly crime has been dragged to the surface… London, 1965 Charles Holborne, maverick barrister, will never fit in at the Bar; he is too working-class, too Jewish and too dangerous. But that makes him the perfect outsider to...
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