Next to Die

David Parker is Manchester's most ingenious criminal defence lawyer.
Mike Parker is Manchester's most tenacious homicide detective.Neither has forgotten the unsolved murder of their sister 15 years earlier. But both have a stake in a new crime that has shaken their city to its core.
Ronnie Bagley is in prison awaiting trial for the murder of his girlfriend and baby. Two weeks before he's due in court he suddenly fires his defence team, claiming that there's only one lawyer he wants to defend him: David Parker.
David is unhappy taking on the case at short notice but does nonetheless. Little does he know that Bagley is smarter than anyone has given him credit for and before long David will find himself pitched against his own detective brother, Mike, a rising star on the Manchester police force as they get sucked into a pulse-pounding race to find out who is NEXT TO DIE. . .