Search - A Certain Justice (Adam Dalgliesh, Bk 10)

It starts a little show, but a good ending

It begins,dramatically enough,with a trial for murder.The distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge is defending Garry Ashe on charges of having brutally killed his aunt.For Alridge the trial is mainly a test of her courtroom skills,One more opportunity to succeed-and she does.But now murder is in the air.The next victim will be Aldridge herself,stabbed to death at her desk in her chambers in the Middle Temple,a blood stained wig on her head.Enter commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team,whose struggle to investigate and understand the shocking events cannot halt the spiral into more horrors,more muders...

As usual the book was far more compelling than the (PBS Mystery) which was made from it.