A Case of Mice and Murder by Sally Smith

A new historical mystery series set in London’s cloistered legal world has loads of potential!

Barrister Gabriel Ward lives and works in the Temple, the fifteen-acre heart of London’s legal community. As he approaches his office on May 1, 1901, his mind happily occupied with a thorny legal matter, he almost misses the body of the Lord Chief Justice of England lying across the entrance with a silver knife in his chest.

After enduring a hysterical cleaner, intrusive police, and the removal of the body, Ward returns to his latest case, the disputed authorship of the best-selling children’s book Millie The Temple Church Mouse.

To his dismay, Sir William Waring asks Ward to head an internal investigation, “a little gentle questioning” in his words.  Ward, a brilliant legal mind but not a people person on his best day, reluctantly agrees.

With the help of young Police Constable Wright, Ward investigates both mice and murder.