In this final instalment of Stuart Littlemore’s incisive crime collection, Harry and Arabella get down and domestic dealing with a baby on the way and the impending interruption to their lively legal careers.

Harry comes to relish a spate of ‘rats-and-mice’ cases - the bottom of the courthouse barrel and as far from murder trials as you could get. Between forest protesters, a new Ferrari on the loose and a spot of rural cricket, this rakish legal scion must find a way to keep his professional and personal life from veering into chaos, or worse yet, monotony.

Whip smart and unflinching, a barrister has taken to skewering puffed-up egos through acutely observed fiction - The Age.

Immensely readable with an accessible style and excellent dialogue with shades of Rumpole and Rake - AB&P.