'Jean Brash is my favourite character and David Ashton's writing
is as delicious, elegant and compelling as she is' Siobhan Redmond
(Jean Brash in BBC Radio 4's McLevy series)
Jean Brash, who first appeared in BBC Radio 4's Inspector McLevy
mysteries, is a formidable woman in her prime. Once a child of the
streets, she is now Mistress of the Just Land, the best bawdy-hoose in
Edinburgh and her pride and joy. But a murder in her establishment could
wreck everything.
New Year's Day - and through the misty streets of Victorian Edinburgh
an elegant, female figure walks the cobblestones - with a certain
vengeful purpose. Jean Brash, the Mistress of the Just Land, brings her
cool intelligence to solving a murder, a murder that took place in her
own bawdy-hoose.
A prominent judge, strangled and left dangling, could bring her whole
life to ruin and she didn't haul herself off the streets, up through low
dirty houses of pleasure and violent vicious men - to let that come to
pass. The search for the killers will take Jean back into her own dark
past as she uncovers a web of political and sexual corruption in the
high reaches of the Edinburgh establishment.
A young boy's death long ago is demanding justice but, as the body count
increases, she has little time before a certain Inspector James
McLevy comes sniffing round like a wolf on the prowl.
Jean may be on the side of natural justice but is she on the side of the
law? Or will the law bring her down?
