Book description
It is extremely bad luck for Sarah Atkins that she is very slightly
over the limit when she knocks down and kills a man in a patch of fog.
It is even worse luck that the man is Jonathan Cool, a well-known pop star.
There are three witnesses: Cool's girlfriend, Sarah's husband and
Sarah, whose fate will turn on their testimony. But as the evidence
unfolds, it begins to appear that this may not have been a
run-of-the-mill accident, and it is down to her solicitor, Rosa Epton,
to unravel the truth. Michael Underwood (the pseudonym of John Michael
Evelyn) was born in Worthing, Sussex and educated at Christ Church
College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1939 and served in the
British army during World War Two. He returned to work in the Department
of Public Prosecutions until his retirement in 1976, and wrote almost 50
crime novels informed by his career in the law. His five series
characters include Sergeant Nick Atwell and lawyer Rosa Epton, of whom
it was said by the Washington Post
that she 'outdoes Perry Mason'.
