UN CASO DE RATONES Y ASESINATO

A judge dead. A lawyer turned detective. When lawyer Gabriel Ward steps out of his chambers on a bright May morning in 1901, his mind is so absorbed in his latest case — the disputed authorship of the bestselling children’s book Millie, the Temple Church Mouse — that he barely notices the body of the Lord Chief Justice lying outside his door. But even he cannot ignore the judge’s bare, dust-covered feet, so at odds with his immaculate ceremonial dress, nor the silver carving knife protruding from his chest. Until now, within the courtyards of the ancient buildings of the Inner Temple — the heart of London’s legal world — murder has remained firmly confined to law books for centuries. And since the police have no authority in the Temple, who better to investigate the case than Gabriel himself, a man who has devoted his life to the law? He soon discovers, however, that murder is far more complicated outside the courtroom, and that behind the Temple’s solid oak doors lie secrets stranger than he could ever have imagined.