The Cut Throat Trial

"In legal thrillers, this year saw the publication of The Cut-Throat Trial by S.J. Fleet, an alias for ‘the Secret Barrister,’ a junior trial lawyer who has written a couple of nonfiction books about the law in the U.K., including Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken . A big part of the attraction for me was that though The Cut-Throat Trial is fiction, it isn’t too far from reality, at least in the system it describes and some of the details of how it functions (you can read our interview with The Secret Barrister from 2019 here )."