Description
'The job of defence counsel is not to get to the truth. It's to find the lies that contradict the story you're selling the jury…'
Charles Konig, KC, has been handed a case he'd rather hand back. A body has been found in the torture chamber of a remote Northumbrian castle, roasted alive inside a bronze statue of Anubis, Egyptian god of the dead. The victim is celebrity historian and author Gideon Wolfe, who had invited four experts to the castle to record a special podcast series on the possible murder of the pharaoh Tutankhamun.
Charles's client is one of the four experts, Professor Edwin Fenton, who has no alibi and plenty of motive. Charles faces a prosecution whose case seems as airtight as the statue itself. But is the true murderer in the dock? Or in the witness box?
