An inventive and ambitious speculative courtroom thriller – Shutter Island meets The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle \n\n‘I look up to find twelve strangers staring back at me… I realise I’m the one they’re waiting for.’ \n\nLila Dalton has no memory of how she got to this courtroom. The man in the docks is accused of mass murder, and she’s his barrister – but she can’t remember anything about the case. She can’t remember anything at all. \n\nLila is stranded on an island hundreds of miles from the UK, where the most serious crimes go to trial. The next plane out doesn’t leave for days. \n\nAnd she’s being watched. Someone keeps breaking into her hotel room to leave cryptic notes, threatening her with deadly consequences if she doesn’t get her client off… \n\nCan Lila Dalton win her case and solve the mystery of her own identity?
L.J. Shepherd lives in Cardiff with her rescue cat, Coral. She studied English Literature at Christ Church, Oxford. After graduating, she decided to pursue a career in law. Laura began practising as a barrister in 2017. Since then, Laura has prosecuted and defended in many jury trials in the Crown Court. She is now a Human Rights barrister instructed in high-profile public inquiries
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