Crime, Mysteries & Thrillers discussion

Hello Fellow Crime, Mystery & Thriller readers,


Welcome to our discussion about Degree of Guilt by Dan Cogan, your discussion leader is David.
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Summary

Soraya Wallace arrives home from an outing on Hampstead Heath with her daughter Huette and grandchildren, just as a workman (Calvin Coffey) comes running from the house. Inside the house, Soraya finds the body of her husband, Walter, lying battered to death in a pool of blood, with a blood-stained hammer nearby. Calvin insists that he was there to give a quote for a loft conversion and found the body. But Soraya knows nothing about any such planned building work. And when Calvin is arrested, the police can find no trace of his existence before six months ago.

Young, feisty and at times reckless law pupil Emily du lac is pulled from other duties to help her supervisor, Nigel Farringdon KC (the first black head of St Jude's Chambers) in Calvin's defence. Emily is not afraid of the challenge - she grew up around the Old Bailey and her estranged father was head of chambers as well as Nigel's mentor. But with whispers of "nepotism" swirling around her, Emily has something to prove, and is not averse to putting everything on the line to catch a hammer-wielding murderer - including her life.