Mistress of the Just Land
Jean Brash (Book 1)
- Author David Ashton
- Narrator David Ashton, Siobhan Redmond
- Publisher John Murray Press
- Publish Date 15 September 2016
- Run Time 10 hours and 16 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Historical crime and mysteries.
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What to expect
New Year's Day - and through the misty streets of Victorian Edinburgh an elegant, female figure walks the cobblestones - with a certain vengeful purpose.
Jean Brash, the Mistress of the Just Land, brings her cool intelligence to solving a murder, a murder that took place in her own bawdy-house (the best in Edinburgh and her pride and joy).
A prominent judge, strangled and left dangling, could bring her whole life to ruin and she didn't haul herself off the streets, up through low dirty houses of pleasure and violent vicious men - to let that come to pass. The search for the killers will take Jean back into her own dark past as she uncovers a web of political and sexual corruption in the high reaches of the Edinburgh establishment.
A young boy's death long ago is demanding justice but, as the body count increases, she has little time before a certain Inspector James McLevy, comes sniffing round like a wolf on the prowl.
Jean may be on the side of natural justice but is she on the side of the law? Or will the law bring her down?
(P) 2016 John Murray Press
Critics Review
Mclevy is a sort of Victorian Morse with a heart, prowling the mean wynds and tenements of the endlessly fascinating city. David Ashton impeccably evokes Edinburgh so vividly that you feel the cold in your bones and the menace of the Old Town's steep cobbles and dark corners
| Author | David Ashton |
|---|---|
| Narrator | David Ashton, Siobhan Redmond |
| Series | Jean Brash |
| Duration | 10 hours and 16 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781473640719 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | John Murray Press |
| Genre | Crime and mystery fiction, Historical crime and mysteries |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE, US |
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