Blind Justice by Nathan Burrows Book Tour and Giveaway :)
Blind
Justice
by
Nathan Burrows
Genre:
Legal Thriller
Gareth
Dawson is an innocent man. Not a murderer. His main problem is that
the British justice system doesn’t agree with him.
He
might be a reformed thief guilty of many things in his past, but not
murder. In the space of a few short months, he's gone from being
married to the woman of his dreams to facing a life sentence.
Inside
Her Majesty’s Prison Whitemoor, a Category A prison in
Cambridgeshire, Gareth’s got all the time in the world to go over
the events that led to the guilty verdict. The guilty verdict which
cost him everything in the world that he loved.
His
dignity. His freedom. His wife.
Gareth
is approached by a lawyer, Paul Dewar, who claims to have information
that will vindicate Gareth. But is it enough to set him free? As
threats against Gareth increase on the inside, Paul Dewar’s
challenge, and Gareth’s fight for freedom, begins.
I
jumped as the thick metal door slammed shut. It wasn’t just the
sound, but the physical force of it closing that affected me. The
pressure changes inside the small cell were palpable. I could feel it
in my ears, like that feeling you get on an aeroplane, and my heart
thudded in my chest a couple of times before returning to normal. If
only the rest of me could calm down, things would be a lot easier.
I
looked around the cell, taking in the four white walls that would be
my home for the next fifteen years. They seemed so close, almost
suffocating. The cell was maybe six feet by ten. There was a small
window high on one wall with a glow coming through it I knew was from
the streetlights outside. I’d considered trying to see out, but
even if I climbed up to the window, I wouldn’t be able to see
anything through the opaque reinforced glass. The only other light in
the room was a bright fluorescent shaft of light from the observation
window set into the green metal door. Even though it was my first
night in this cell, I knew in about ten minutes that light would
disappear as the prison guards turned off the main lights to the
wing.
Other
than the bunk bed I was sitting on and the bare toilet in the corner,
the only furniture in the cell was a small table with a chair and a
cabinet bolted to the wall near the window. I lay back on the bottom
bunk, wriggling to fit myself into the bed. They weren’t made for
people my size. That much was for certain. I’d
been
told that my cellmate, who was in the hospital wing for a few days,
had already claimed the top bunk. I couldn’t see any point in
making a scene about it. Not on my first day, anyway.
The
events of the last few weeks ran through my mind as I examined the
bottom of the mattress above me. Being arrested, being remanded, and
being tried. Being found guilty.
Maths
had never been my strong point, but I tried to do the sums in my
head. I wanted to know how many times the cell door would slam before
I would be eligible for parole. There were three hundred and
sixty-five days in a year, so I needed to multiply that by fifteen.
When I realised it was over five thousand, I gave up trying to work
it out. Fifteen years was a long time, but it was the minimum term
for my crime.
Murder.
Nathan
Burrows is a writer based in Norfolk in the United Kingdom. His debut
novel, Blind Justice, was published in March 2018.
Nathan's
a keen reader as well as a writer. He occasionally runs marathons,
has a Norwich City football club season ticket, and is the proud
part-owner of a Daschund puppy called Bertie.
His
current work in progress is tentatively called ‘Meat’, and is a
dark post-Brexit comedy. It’s currently scheduled to be released in
the autumn.
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Congrats on the tour and I appreciate the excerpt and the great giveaway as well. Love the tours, I get to find books and share with my sisters the ones I know they would enjoy reading and they both love to read. Thank you!
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