Despite all Sarah’s efforts, it seems he is following in the footsteps of his callous father. She sees each trial as a game – a game of proof – which she plays to win.īut just as her career is beginning to take off, her own son, Simon, is arrested and charged with a series of brutal rapes and murders. From this disastrous beginning she has worked her way up, by sheer strength of character, to begin a career as a criminal barrister.Īt first she enjoys her daily battles in the courtroom. Abandoned by her brutal husband, she left school to bring up her son as a single parent on one of the worst council estates in Leeds. Sarah Newby became pregnant in the back of a Ford Cortina at the age of 15. (I walk 2 miles, she runs 20!) I also have two horses, two cats, and two grandchildren, but only 1 wife, to whom I have been happily married for more years than I can remember. Ī mother’s worst nightmare – can her own son be guilty of murder? And if she thinks he is, what should she do? I have recently retired, so my main activity apart from writing is cycling, swimming, and taking our small hyper-active dog for a 'walk'. I live in the English countryside, near York. The third, The Monmouth Summer is set during a Protestant rebellion in seventeenth century England. These three books are all published individually, but are also available as a three-novel boxed set called Women of Courage.Īs a university teacher I also wrote textbooks and about twenty graded readers for foreign learners of English in the Oxford Bookworms series, published by Oxford University Press, two of which, Titanic and The Everest Story, won awards from the Extensive Reading Foundation in 20 respectively.
Two of the other historical novels, Cat & Mouse and The Blood Upon the Rose, are set in the same historical period as the British TV series Downton Abbey. Nobody's Slave, a novel about the Elizabethan slave trade, won first prize in the young adult category of the Kindle Book Review Kindle Book Awards 2014.
I've also published four historical novels. The first two books, A Game of Proof, and A Fatal Verdict, are also available as audiobooks, read by Susan Edmonds. The second book in the series, A Fatal Verdict, was awarded a B.R.A.G Medallion for an outstanding independent novel, and the third, Bold Counsel, was awarded the Awesome Indies Seal of Excellence. Some readers have kindly compared these books to the works of John Grisham and Scott Turow. I've written three legal thrillers about a tough British barrister called Sarah Newby, and I'm currently writing a fourth. My name's Tim Vicary and I'm an author and a former university teacher at the University of York, England.
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