Two readers can win a copy of Simon Michael’s brand-new historical legal crime novel, The French Vendetta!
Jewish Author Simon Michael – often referred to as ‘the British John Grisham’ – is a novelist, performer/speaker, and former criminal barrister whose historical crime fiction is shaped by decades spent inside the justice system, drawing on real cases and lived professional experience.
His protagonist is Jewish Barrister Charles Holborne, a former East End heavyweight boxer and occasional criminal who is drawn into cases at the intersection of organised crime, police corruption, and political intrigue! Peaky Blinders’ Tommy Shelby meets The Lincoln Lawyer… that’s what you can expect from this best-selling series which consists of 11 books in total set in London in the 1960s and 1970s – The French Vendetta is the latest instalment!
When Charles Holborne travels to rural France in 1970, he is hoping for a quiet escape. Instead, he finds a village still ruled by old loyalties, buried secrets, and unresolved guilt.
A woman has disappeared. Accusations resurface. And the past, shaped by fear and silence during the Nazi occupation, begins to intrude on the present. As Holborne is drawn deeper into a case the village believes it has already judged, he discovers that justice here is fragile – and truth can be more dangerous than lies.
Moving between wartime France and the uneasy peace decades later, The French Vendetta explores how communities rewritehistory to survive, and what happens when moral compromise is mistaken for justice.
Drawn into a simmering vendetta between those who collaborated with the Nazis and those who resisted, Charles has no choice but to defend a client in a place with no judge, no rules, and no law. With a firing squad awaiting the verdict, his client’s life is on the line…
