Elisabeth Sharman has a secret.
As a senior solicitor with the Australian Capital Territory Legal Aid Office she's defending a 19 year old with amnesia. He can't remember committing the murder for which he's on trial. Or says he can't.
Robert Murphy has a problem: Elisabeth.
He's her instructing solicitor and she's not playing by the legal rules. She's new to the office. No-one knows her modus operandi. But it's more, much more, than an unusual methodology.
She's using her feminine wiles with him - to good effect - and he's afraid her motives aren't pure.
Will the secret, when revealed, explain everything? Or will the result be catastrophic?
#mild sex, 13+
'A legal affair' is created by Alana Woods, an eGlobal Creative Publishing Signed Author.

A Legal Affair

Because there had been a day's delay she took Christopher Stavros back over his evidence in chief, re-acquainting the jury with his answers. The scene that had confronted him, his actions until the police arrived. Then she began painstakingly examining every statement, turning them inside out, rewording her questions and putting them as new, querying estimates, always challenging. Why couldn't he be accurate about the time he made the emergency call? Why couldn't he remember in what order he had attended to things when he arrived at the supermarket? How did he know his mother was afraid the killer might return and so had locked the doors when she had said nothing to him and had not locked the doors herself while waiting for him to come? Why did he think it permissible for a man to beat his wife? Should he not have intervened, been more vigilant, spent more time at the supermarket? Had he spoken to his mother about what had happened that night? What had she told him?


Chapter 74: The difference between reason and motive