Calling Down the Storm

April 1971. When DI Webb and DS Raymond arrive at Harpur's Mews in response to a call, Susan Lang is lying on the ground, bleeding to death. Her husband Henry is sitting nearby, holding a blood-stained knife. Henry claims to have no memory of the events that led to his wife's death, leaving Ben Schroeder little to defend a potential murder charge. Unknown to his strict Baptist wife Deborah, Justice Conrad Rainer has a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. He has already raided his own and Deborah's resources, and now he has crossed a line—one from which there is no return. To his horror, as Henry Lang's trial starts, Conrad discovers a sinister connection between the trial and his gambling debts. Both Henry and Conrad's lives are on the line, and time is running out.

Peter Murphy has had a career in the law, as an advocate and teacher, both in England and the United States. His legal work included a number of years in The Hague as defense counsel at the Yugoslavian War Crimes Tribunal. He is the author of?A Higher Duty,?Removal, And Is There Still Honey for Tea? and The Heirs of Owain Glyndwr.