A Novel Approach To Justice Denial

A smart, no-nonsense woman with an abiding love of law – and a level of knowledge to match that passion. An exploration of a contemporary issue with far-reaching consequences. A backdrop of one of Canada’s great cities limned with elegance, deep familiarity and obvious affection.

Add up those elements, and friends and acquaintances will quickly identify the subject as Beverley McLachlin, and the location as her beloved Vancouver. But in this case, the protagonist of Denial is not the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court herself, or a specific case over which she presided in her years on the bench. Instead, it’s her literary creation, Jilly Truitt, the crime-solving defence lawyer we first met in McLachlin’s previous novel, 2019’s Full Disclosure. The result of this second outing is another briskly-paced, neatly-plotted read that provides a clear-eyed view of the complex machinations of our legal system – for better and sometimes worse. [MORE]