
Private Prosecution
A one-night stand becomes a whodunnit
Lisa Ellery(Author)
Fremantle Press
Published on 1. December 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-1-925816-73-0 (ISBN)
Description
Andrew Deacon is young, fit, and single, a junior prosecutor at the WA DPP with a bright future and a sense of entitlement to match. That future starts to look darker when he spends the night with an attractive stranger, Lily Constantine, and she is found murdered in her apartment the following day. Based on a conversation with Lil, Andrew believes he knows who killed her a senior criminal law barrister, Sam Godfrey SC, who is also Lil's brother-in-law. Andrew tells the police everything he knows, but his quest to bring Godfrey to justice provokes retaliation and soon Andrew is on the run, with no way forward but to prove Godfrey's guilt. This is a pacy, darkly comic whodunnit with a twist Andrew knows who did it but the clock is ticking and he has to prove it before he gets himself taken out.
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Language
English
Place of publication
North Fremantle
Australia
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
425 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-925816-73-0 (9781925816730)
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Person
Lisa Ellery was born in 1975 and raised on a farm near Esperance on Western Australia s south coast. She studied law and arts at the University of Western Australia before returning to regional WA in 1998 to commence her career as a lawyer in the goldmining city of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. She soon fell in love with Kal and its people, and in 2008 she started her own law firm there, working predominantly in commercial and mining law. Her debut novel, Private Prosecution, was published by Fremantle Press in 2021. Lisa sold her law practice in 2022 to scale back her non-writing commitments. She is married to Simon Ellery, a geologist. She continues to live in Kalgoorlie and divides her time between the law, running and writing.