Born in 1946, Peter Murphy graduated from Cambridge University and
pursued a career in the law in England, the United States and The
Hague. He practised as a barrister in London for a decade, then
took up a professorship at a law school in Texas, a position he
held for more than twenty years. Towards the end of that period he
returned to Europe as counsel at the Yugoslavian War Crimes
Tribunal in The Hague for almost a decade. In 2007 he returned to
England to take up an appointment as a judge of the Crown Court. He
retired as Resident Judge and Honorary Recorder of Peterborough in
2015.
Peter started writing fiction more than twenty years ago, but
following his retirement from the bench he became a full-time
author, often drawing on the many experiences of his former career.
Two political thrillers about the American presidency: Removal and
Test of Resolve were followed by eight legal thrillers in the Ben
Schroeder series about a barrister practising in London in the
1960s and 1970s. Alongside those he also penned the light-hearted
series of short story colllections featuring Judge Walden of
Bermondsey in the ‘Rumpole’ tradition, based in part on his own
experiences as a lawyer and judge, and recently published A Statue
for Jacob, based on the true story of Jacob de Haven.
Peter passed away in September 2022.
'A thought-provoking, intriguing unmasking of court room sparring
and Welsh nationalism in this novel set in the 1960's'
*Lovereading*
'After swapping his gavel for a pen, a former crown court judge has
published the fourth book in his popular legal saga'
*The Hunts Post*
'The story illustrates and discusses effectively questions of
nationalism and national identity. It is to the author's credit
that this fiction sometimes reads and feels like a dramatic
re-telling of a real event'
*Crime Review*
'Books to Look Forward to from No Exit Press and Oldcastle
Books'
*Ayo Onatande*
'All the details of barristerial life, the rules of ethics and
evidence, the social attitudes and the courtroom procedure
appropriate for the late 1960s period setting are pitch perfect ...
the book raises very contemporary questions about the roots of
radicalism, the motivations for terrorism and the conduct of the
security services in combatting it'
*Barrister*
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