The Trial: The No. 1 bestselling whodunit by Britain’s best-known criminal barrister

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Today he was due in court as the key police witness in another high-profile case – this one involving a nasty gang of teenage thugs. Thanks to the weapons and drugs he’d personally discovered during searches of the little shits’ residences, he knew they had them bang to rights. The trial still had some way to go, but DI Cliveden was already mentally chalking it up as another win – well, four really, if you counted each of the defendants separately. That meant his personal tally for the calendar year had already hit fifty. He felt a shiver of pride – ever since he’d hit the headlines again last year, after recovering London’s biggest ever haul of cocaine, he knew the public’s eyes were on him. And he wasn’t about to let them down. Brilliant courtroom drama, humorous as you would expect from Rob, and one that I had to read slowly because I did not want it to end' Heidi Perks That was all a long time ago now though. Royal protection was his past; serious crime was his present and, God willing, his future. As he’d told Susanna Reid on the Good Morning Britain sofa when he was asked to talk through the police’s new crime strategy, it was an honour to go from protecting one individual who represented the values of our great society to protecting society itself. He grinned as he remembered how her eyes had shone with admiration as he’d delivered his solemn vow of service; God, he’d always fancied her. The producers had fancied him, too, offering him a regular slot that they were going to call ‘Good Cop Britain’, or something. He’d turned them down, of course; policing was much more valuable.

Brilliant courtroom drama, humorous as you would expect from Rob, and one that I had to read slowly because I didn't want it to end' Heidi Perks This was a first. The pupil master had generally shown next to zero interest in Adam’s progress in his ‘second six’, the period of six months during which a pupil was allowed to represent their own clients in court, rather than simply doing the pupil master’s donkey work.

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Rinder, who specialised in international fraud but also took on wider cases – he represented British soldiers charged with manslaughter after the deaths of Iraqi detainees – would often be “the de facto decision-maker on an extremely important decision. Would there be moments where I’d be in that room thinking: ‘What are you asking me for?’ Of course.”

Becoming a barrister suited Rinder’s relatively late-discovered love of learning, the debating skills he nurtured at university and a genuine desire for advocacy. “There’s something enormously powerful about standing between the individual [accused of a crime] and the power of the state. There’s a moment – it happens to all young barristers – where you realise that what you’re doing has the most profound value to uphold democracy under the rule of law. It sounds sanctimonious, or about your own importance. It’s not quite like that.” It’s not about him specifically, he says, more what it means for us all. This was definitely a five star read for me, I just couldn’t put it down and that’s always a good sign! DI Grant Cliveden is the country’s most famous detective, “with the kind of good looks which, if not quite Hollywood level, were of soap heart-throb standard”. He’s been on Good Morning Britain, and has turned down Strictly “at least four times”. Being a “much-loved police officer”, we learn, “beats being a hedge-fund wanker”.

Green!’ The unmistakable reedy tones of Jonathan Taylor-Cameron, Adam’s pupil master, were drifting imperiously over from the other side of the room. A ridiculously entertaining whodunit. The Trial is sharp, witty and has a huge amount of heart. You're all going to love it when it hits shelves in June' Tom Hindle

This is a book that takes you to the dark heart of the criminal justice system. They're all here - the good, the bad, the innocent and the guilty. I haven't enjoyed a legal thriller this much since Grisham's The Firm' Tony Parsons The only thing that's certain is that this is a trial which will push Adam - and the justice system itself - to the limit . . . Adam has personal reasons for trying to clear Jimmy’s name despite his guilt seeming to be obvious and he works hard to find out the truth of the case before trial. He learns that the deceased was not quite as saintly as he first appeared.

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I was really looking forward to reading this book I have always liked Rob Rinder in his various tv appearances and was curious to know if his talent would shine through in his writing and oh boy did it just, I loved the book !

Er, yes, sorry about that,’ said Adam, raising his voice in an effort to drown out the escalating grunts and moans coming from the other side of the door. ‘I was at Bexley Mags.’ Most of my experience in this genre has been everything America. So, to read a legal fiction that is based in England is so refreshing. If only he could think of something clever to say. The person he actually wanted to talk to, Bobby Thompson KC, was standing a little removed from the crowd, sipping a glass of water with a haughty expression on his face. But he is perhaps best-known for his long-running daytime TV show Judge Rinder, which developed from his proper career as a barrister. Now, in a bid to show the fiction-reading public the inner workings of the courts of law, Rinder has written the first of two novels featuring a lightly Jewish barrister, Adam Green, as his alter ego. I say “lightly Jewish”, because in general, the characters would have worked even if Rinder had set the whole Jewish bit aside. There is, however, a series of comedy phone calls throughout the book, in which Green’s Awful Jewish Mother attempts to inflict various awful-sounding Jewish women on her son. Such conversations seemed to resonate with tropes rooted in the community of the 1950s or 1960s. As well as this we had the faux "comedy" of the stereotypical Jewish mother, feeding, cleaning and trying to find her son a nice Jewish girl.

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Adam opened his mouth to answer, but didn’t get the chance before their conversation was unceremoniously interrupted by Tony. The clerk’s previous fury seemed to have passed, replaced with a fizzing, malevolent excitement.