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Stung

#8 in series

by William Deverell
Rebecca Auerbach
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Award–winning novelist William Deverell is back with a new Arthur Beauchamp legal thriller.

Lawyer Arthur Beauchamp is facing the most explosive trial of his career: the defence of seven boisterous environmentalists accused of sabotaging an Ontario plant that pumps out a pesticide that has led to the mass death of honeybees. The story zigzags between Toronto, where the trial takes place, and Arthur's West Coast island home, where he finds himself arrested for fighting his own environmental cause: the threatened destruction of a popular park. The Toronto trial concludes with a tense, hang-by-the-fingernails jury verdict. Realistic and riveting, Stung is a propulsive legal thriller by a beloved author at the height of his powers.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Arthur Beauchamp

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    March 30, 2021

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781773057552
      • File size: 618511 KB
      • Duration: 21:28:33

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This audiobook combines attorney Arthur Beauchamp's moral crusade to save the environment with a case he needs to achieve those goals. A trio of narrators, Rebecca Auerbach, Steve Cumyn, and Chris Humphreys, provide deft deliveries that enhance author William Deverell's brisk dialogue and well-defined courtroom scenes. Beauchamp is defending the "Sarnia Seven," who are battling a large chemical company to protect honeybees and the ecosystem. As the story builds, the narrators complement each other with varying paces, intensity, and emotion, allowing the plot to define each moment, particularly the courtroom scenes, which are the highlight of the audiobook. D.J.S. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 25, 2021
      Arthur Ellis Award–winner Deverell’s enjoyable eighth Arthur Beauchamp novel (after 2017’s Whipped) finds the aging British Columbia lawyer starting to feel “that he is over the hill and accelerating down it.” However, he agrees “to strap on his guns one last time” and represent a group of environmental warriors who are charged with an assortment of crimes against Chemican International, which is producing a pesticide in Ontario that’s devastating the honeybee population in Brazil. The action shifts between the antics of sexy activist Rivie Levitsky, who sets out to seduce the director of security operations for Chemican’s Canadian division as part of the activists’ sting operation, and occasionally poignant scenes at Arthur’s farm, where he prepares for trial. A third plotline follows the exploits of two Ontario provincial police officers as they track down the environmentalists. Elegant prose and an endearing lead ease the way through the thicket of environmental issues. Fans of character-driven mysteries will be rewarded.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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