Crowner and Justice (Chris Tyroll Mystery #4)

Chris Tyroll is a busy litigation lawyer in the West Midlands.

He'd like to have long lunches, play golf and holiday in the Seychelles, but he puts up with early starts, no lunches and late nights. One morning three clients come to him with totally different problems.

The first, an Employment Tribunal case against British Defence Systems, looks complicated. BDS manufactures a seek-and-destroy weapon, ‘The Retaliator.’ The dismissal of one man has triggered a strike and two more workers have been sacked as a result.

Then Tyroll deals with a distraught mother who cannot accept her son’s death and wants to get the coroner’s verdict changed from suicide to murder.

And finally he’s met with a man who asks: why can’t an empty field be used to graze ponies?

Tyroll investigates these cases with the aid of his sharp and beautiful girlfriend Sheila McKenna as they weave their way through clues and deal with their own relationship issues.

But when another client dies, and a chance comment by a witness reveals that all three cases are somehow connected, Tyroll realises he’s in deeper than he thought.

Tyroll finds himself and Sheila in a deadly confrontation. Can he save her? Can he even save himself?

It’s a race against time to solve the three cases before it’s too late...