Henry Milner
Wensley Clarkson - Author:
"A pacy, witty, riveting tour de force."
Frost Magazine:
“This is a brilliant and believable novel due to the author being one of the UK’s top criminal lawyers. Gorgeously entertaining. A fantastic debut from a new rising star.”
The Law Times:
"Henry Milner’s debut novel is not so much a whodunnit as a detective story that unravels the motives and the puppeteer behind the crime.
Fast, funny and readable, Murder at the Bailey is an enjoyable romp through a criminal world more recognisable decades ago: rogues’ justice often prevails, against a background of colourful lifestyles — from expensive restaurants and bars to flashy cars and mistresses.
It’s a complex interplay of defendants, lawyers, judge and jury in which nothing can be taken for granted. But it’s not just a game: Big Jake wants to hang up his criminal boots and finally do a good deed. There is redemption in Milner’s world — and justice of a kind — outside the courts as well in them."
Marie Warren – Crime Monthly:
“When notorious loanshark Robert Maynard - aka Mercenary Bob - is shot to death in front of the Old Bailey, it looks like an open-and-shut case, as the killer makes no attempt to flee the scene. So, getting him off is going to be the toughest case of defence solicitor Adrian Stanford's career. An entertaining romp from one of Britain’s top criminal lawyers.”