Always Have Hope (Emerson Book 3) - Plot & Excerpts
He’d spent most of the day and into the evening studying the ledgers he’d taken from Pierce’s house. His neck and back ached. His desk was too small and there was but one comfortable chair in his chamber. Unfortunately, it wasn’t conducive to poring over ledgers, particularly when one of them was in an undecipherable code. He’d spent hours trying to break it, to no avail. He was growing more frustrated with this case by the hour. It was an odd thing, being a barrister. One lived and worked from chambers, then ate in the dining hall, much like life at a college in university. The head of chambers distributed cases and a barrister could not decline an assignment unless he was too busy or not qualified to argue the merits. However, if he’d had the choice, he would have declined his current case. The more he read, the more he wondered about Mrs. Pierce’s guilt. If she had killed her husband, she’d been most impractical about it. And while there were those who felt women were inherently impractical, Alex did not believe Mrs.
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