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Bleedout
Ottaker’s Book of the Month Selection (UK)
Booksense Pick of the month (US)
Most Mentioned Book in the Media (Australia)
Synopsis
The victim: An invincible lawyer
Hugh Freyl, the scion of the richest and most influential family in Springfield, Illinois, is found beaten to death in the library of his own law firm.
The suspect: A convicted killer.
David Marion, a young man from the inner city, is out of prison. It was Freyl who, to the outrage of colleagues, family and friends, orchestrated his release. And it was Freyl who took David in as his protégé, giving him a second chance at life. Were Frey’s critics right to suspect David’s murderous nature all along? Or was Freyl, a blind man who could always see the truth in others, not all he appeared to be? As David fights to prove his innocence, a twisted world of darkness and deception unfolds.
Here in the UK, it was an Ottakers Book of the Month. In the US it was a Booksense Pick for April of 2005. In Australia, it was the most mentioned book in the media in June 2005.
Reviews
“Buy it … brilliant …move over John Grisham” Mirror
“Stunning” Telegraph
“Gruesome but enthralling” Times Literary Supplement
“So sharp you can cut yourself on it” Spectator
“Outstanding” Time Out
“Astonishing” Independent on Sunday
Interviews
Interviews with Joan Brady on the publication of Bleedout
Joan Brady’s recent courtroom battles have inspired her to write a legal thriller. This granddaughter of a white slave tells Christie Hickman what fuels her rage…Read More...
The award-winning novelist tells James Francken how an acrimonious dispute with her local council inspired a lurid and very angry thriller…Read More...
The legal battle that fuelled Bleedout involved a criminal prosecution as well as a personal injury suit. She won both cases. Here she speaks to the press:
Award winning novelist Joan Brady was enjoying her life as a writer in a sleepy Devon town until she started being poisoned by fumes from the factory next door. So began an eight-year struggle for justice—and her health. But then, as she tells Stuart Jeffries, her life has been far from uneventful…Read More...
“I’ll tell you what this disease is like,” she said. She picked up a toothpick and began jabbing her leg. “You get dead spots. Sharp, sharp.” She started working down her shin. “Nothing, nothing. Sharp, sharp”…Read More...
Here she describes her ordeal and how—bizarrely—it ended up saving her life …Read More...
Extract
But why did he kill them? Try as I might, I cannot find an answer that satisfies me. Stephanie assures me that I would be closer to it if I could see him, but I’ve been completely blind for a quarter of a century. I cannot make out as much as a man’s outline in full sun. And yet even on the first day I met him, he managed to give off a sense of threat as soon as he entered the room. He was only a boy then, a couple of months short of sixteen, but in those first few minutes… Read More...
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