Patchwork People Series

Synopsis

From Book 1:

He has a brilliant future ahead of him until a dead woman threatens to spill his secrets...

As he contemplates his wife's sudden and suspicious death and the blackmail note she left him, not only does Lawrence Juste wonder who could have wanted to kill her, but why, when she planned to destroy him?


Yet his come-uppance is partly deserved. At the pinnacle of his career and about to make High Court Judge, even he has to admit the man who promised to uphold the law and defend injustice got lost years ago in a morass of lies, secrets, manipulation and murder. How did everything go so wrong? And is it ever too late to atone?
The rapidly unfolding tragedy presented to him in the form of a child charged with murder who he must defend or desert - just as he deserted his brother years ago when he had to choose last time – offers him a chance to redeem himself.
It also opens the door to the family he left behind, and a world of violence, abuse and fear - but ironically also, love. And when the child's parentage comes into question, and Juste finds his name potentially in the frame for fatherhood, he has no choice but to unravel the past to find the truth – and the one person he still fears more than death itself.

Patchwork Man is the first book in the intense Patchwork People family thriller series, destined to keep you up at night.

˃˃˃ What the reviewers say:

“Patchwork Man is as compelling as last year's psychologically taut, legal procedural "Apple Tree Yard" by Louise Doughty, and is as unrelentingly concerned with social justice for the poor as Elizabeth George's stunning "What Came Before He Shot Her" (Inspector Lynley Book 14, 2006). Like those authors, D.B. Martin is not afraid to bring her readers to unpleasant realities, distasteful characters, and to moral questions that have no simple or, perhaps, any permanent solutions... [A] thought-provoking and sometimes gut-wrenching series.”

Karen Dahood - Bookpleasures

“Whew! Nothing prepares you to face a book of your life based upon all the horrors, lies, and secrets that were kept in order for you to one day walk away and go to college... Highly recommended!”

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