Sally Smith Books in Order

Sally Smith explores the career and private life of celebrated barrister Edward Marshall Hall. Famous trials, powerful courtroom performances, turbulent relationships, and his defense of vulnerable clients reveal how a charismatic advocate became a public celebrity in Edwardian Britain.

In 1901, barrister Gabriel Ward discovers the murdered Lord Chief Justice outside his rooms while absorbed in a disputed children’s book case. Asked to investigate within the Inner Temple, he finds that its ordered legal world conceals unexpected secrets.

A stolen medieval book and a murdered librarian draw Gabriel Ward into another Inner Temple investigation. While defending a struggling sweetshop, he must challenge assumptions about two outsiders already treated as suspects by the legal establishment.