July 13th, 2024
Globe and Mail Review: Beautifully written and haunting, this is one of Deverell’s best.
This is the latest in the wonderful Arthur Beauchamp series and it’s superb. If, like me, you’ve wondered just how Beauchamp became a lawyer for the lost, Deverell fills in the backstory.
The case, set in 1966, has a young and avid Beauchamp taking on a murder case. The accused young woman claims the dead man raped her and that’s why she shot him. Although he’s young and inexperienced, he knows that all he needs to do to win the case is sow some reasonable doubt.
We go forward to Beauchamp now in his eighties who is filled with the regrets. Regular readers know Beauchamp’s life has been one of wins and losses and Deverell plays on all those as he builds this story in the form of a memoir. Beautifully written and haunting, this is one of Deverell’s best.