Debut novel from author and musician Adrian Wilson. A pacey and engaging thriller, it chases down the dark streets and smokey rooms of Wakefield and illustrates how a life can change in an instant.

Your first fumbled sex, remember that? Lips that go bump in the night. Fingertips on hot-cold rippled skin. Thumbs and hooks. The first book you read breathlessly, which spun you with torch under blanket into the small hours to its conclusion. The first exotic dish that made you aware of your tastebuds. Your first car, first job, first alcoholic haze, first marriage, first child, first murder. After the first it will always be necessary to regret what comes next…

For Crown Prosecution solicitor James Turner there is a clear distinction between right and wrong, and before the local magistrates he's usually right. But what of his wife Sally and her admirer Kevin? Or his courtroom adversary Colin Chatterton and the ambitious journalist Jo Hinchcliffe? How have these people forced James Turner to be so suddenly and murderously wrong?

Adrian Wilson is a writer, journalist and musician. He first became famous-by-default as a young punk, for enquiring of the singer Chrissie Hynde if an abandoned pair of leopard-skin-print trousers had any 'brass in't' pocket', unintentionally inspiring the first number one record of the 1980s. His novels The Righteous Brother and Very Acme are published by Route.