Reviews

Four-part drama series about the 1970s criminal justice system: A Detective’s Tale; A Villain’s Tale; A Brief’s Tale; and A Prisoner’s Tale

• BBC Four 40th anniversary broadcast: 12 April to 3 May 2018
• Programme creator: G F Newman
• Director: Les Blair
• First broadcast: April 1978 on BBC Two

Peter Murphy
Foreword by His Honour Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC, The Recorder of London
Publisher: No Exit Press, November 2017
Format: Paperback
Extent: 416pp
ISBN: 9780857301222

Sir Desmond de Silva
Publisher: Quartet Books (September 2017)
ISBN-13: 978-0704374423

Dominic Selwood (Corax, October 2016)
Paperback 384pp ISBN 978-0992633271

This is the second in a trilogy of well-researched, historical, religious thrillers featuring heroine Dr Ava Curzon, ex-secret service turned museum curator, a sort of cross between Harry Palmer and Lara Croft

Tom Gash (Penguin, March 2017)
​Paperback 352pp ISBN 978-0241960431

A key insight into this book is that the author is a former management consultant, who describes himself as challenging received wisdom about crime and punishment, and being sceptical of ‘big ideas’.