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Blind Justice (Gareth Dawson Series Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Nathan Burrows (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 833 ratings
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An innocent man sent to prison for life. A lawyer gives him a second chance. Can they overcome an unfair system to clear his name?

Gareth Dawson is innocent. He's not a murderer. His main problem is that the British justice system doesn’t agree with him. He might be a reformed thief guilty of many things in his past, but not murder. In the space of a few short months, Gareth has gone from being married to the woman of his dreams to facing a life sentence.

Inside Her Majesty’s Prison Whitemoor, a Category A prison in Cambridgeshire, Gareth’s got all the time in the world to go over the events that led to the guilty verdict. The guilty verdict which cost him everything in the world that he loved. His dignity. His freedom. His wife.

Gareth is approached by a lawyer, Paul Dewar, who claims to have information that will vindicate him. But is it enough to set him free? As threats against Gareth increase on the inside, Paul Dewar’s challenge, and Gareth’s fight for freedom, begins.

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    Gareth Dawson Series
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    380 pages
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  5. Publication date
    March 30, 2018
  6. Reading age
    16 - 18 years
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"Blind Justice is an intriguing crime drama that features well-written and expressed emotions. If you enjoy BBC crime dramas or Law and Order, this is the book for you." Entrada Publishing
"An exciting legal thriller with an excellent little twist at the end." Whatsgoodtoread.co.uk

About the Author

Nathan Burrows is a writer based in East Anglia in the United Kingdom. His thrillers and dark comedies are set - mostly - in his home city of Norwich in Norfolk.

Nathan's a keen reader as well as a writer. He occasionally runs marathons, has a Norwich City football club season ticket, and is the proud part-owner of a Dachshund puppy called Bertie.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B079KB7P8M
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amazon Digital Services LLC (March 30, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 30, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2306 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 380 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 833 ratings

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Nathan Burrows is a writer based in Norfolk in the east of the United Kingdom.

Primarily a thriller writer, he enjoys writing character based books where the people in them are the most important things. His latest series is The Preacher series featuring a unique hero (or is he an anti-hero?) called Caleb who wanders the world—dressed in a robe.

Nathan has worked in some pretty interesting places over the past twenty-five years including Afghanistan, Iraq, Sierra Leone, Bosnia, and Eastern Europe and is still proud to serve. His travels and adventures have helped with writing many of his books, such as the British Military Thriller series, but you’ll have to work out what’s fact and what’s fiction for yourself!

Writing as N.D. Burrows, he's also the author of a dark comedy trilogy. The first in the series is 'The Butcher', a deliciously funny story about - amongst other things - sausages. The second in the series is 'The Baker', which features Norfolk's most useless cult. And finally, 'The Candlestick Maker' is about a fitness instructor with a difference.

Nathan's a keen reader as well as a writer. He occasionally runs marathons, has a Norwich City football club season ticket, and is the proud part-owner of a Daschund puppy called Bertie.

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Headly
5.0 out of 5 stars Its Revenge actually.
Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2020
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We start with the main character in jail facing a 15 yr to life sentence for murder. That's the very first page of the book! So why read anymore when you already know how it ends?

Much of the story is all background...the how and why he's locked up, what he did,where it was done , who helped and the underlying reason he took matters into his own hands. He has even confessed to this crime.

So why are we still reading? Because someone, a nameless individual, believes he got the dirty end of the stick . His act of violence ,in some countries, would be considered heroic, but not here in jolly old England.... Here you rot in jail...unless you have hope in a nameless, faceless benefactor who just may be able to extricate your sorry self from the clutches of Old Bill , ( aka, police).

A word of caution here dear reader. It you tend to get really involved in the story and empathise with the lead character, you might just start getting a lump in your throat and even sheding a tear or two
when certain aspects of the story are brought to light. This story is a heartbreaker....so be warned.

But if you want be part of a fantastic courtroom drama, then pick up this story and dive in! Its an elegant story line and very well written to keep you interested and invested in the eventual outcome.
10 stars..and more!
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grammy
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent legal story
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2020
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I had no idea where this story was headed. It’s an excellent read with interesting characters and a couple of very well done twists. Definitely recommend
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Dwayne Gill
5.0 out of 5 stars Satisfying story and ending, with a twist
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2018
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Mr. Burrows delivers a very well-paced story of justice in a way that you won’t see coming. The first half of the book tells how the protagonist, Gareth, a small-time criminal, stumbles into a romance with a girl that appears to be out of his league. His world comes crashing down in one fateful night and he finds himself alone, and soon after fighting for his own freedom. The second half of the book details that struggle...and provides a twist at the end.

Well-written and full of suspense, Burrows presents a likable main character that a lot of us can relate to. You’ll be turning the pages to see how it all plays out!

If you’re a fan of crime/legal fiction, I’d recommend the read.
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Sabinadl
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Read
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2023
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Such a well executed story. I loved everything about it... The way the story unfolds, ever so slowly but keeping your interest the entire way. The characters, the courtroom drama. It really is a perfect read. 5+stars!!!
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Marilyn Findlay
5.0 out of 5 stars What a great story!
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2020
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Interesting plot line. Of course all people in prison are innocent, but Gareth explains his circumstances so cogently and coherently it's like he's sitting talking to you. And the reasoning behind his going to prison is so believable and reasonable you can't really deny it. The ending is somehow both surprising and satisfying and I will surely be looking for more tales from this author. Well done indeed!
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Cassie Allen
4.0 out of 5 stars A gripping legal thriller, the tale of Gareth Dawson
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2019
Nathan Burrows delivers a well-paced legal thriller telling the story of Gareth Dawson.
The story immediately makes you fall in love with the characters as they are relatable and realistic. From how the story starts off with Garth being in the prison cell you are never really sure what the turning point will be in the story that will cause Gareth to land himself in jail.
Gareth starts off as someone that does occasional "side jobs" or as we know them as being petty theft. Despite his extra work, Gareth comes across as a stand up guy willing to the do the right thing. One night out at his local pub with his friends he spots a couple come in and from there the story of Gareth and Jennifer begins. I enjoyed watching their relationship grow which led to the emotions that went behind all of his actions.
The author does a great job of giving you enough information to get by without giving too much up. Did Gareth actually commit the crime? I guess you will have to read the book to find out.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
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Richard D. Ellis
5.0 out of 5 stars Innocent man convicted of murder
Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2020
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Gareth, our main character, is a minor criminal who loves to break into businesses and steal things. He meets and marries the love of his life, but she is killed in a hit and run accident by an ex-boyfriend. Gareth plots to attack The lowlife ex-boyfriend and with the help of his friends and local bartender finds and attacks the ex-boyfriend striking him in the head with a baseball bat. Garrett is arrested when the boyfriend is found dead after the attack. He is convicted and imprisoned but justice lawyer takes the case on appeal and there is a re-trial. The trial scenes are very well written in one feels like they are actually in the court room. There are some very well done plot twists and an ending you cannot anticipate.
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Becky Brannon
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Mystery
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2021
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Enjoyed this book very much. The characters came to life and were easy to as I read the book. Will definitely look for the other books in this series.
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Jean
5.0 out of 5 stars Kept me blind
Reviewed in Australia on March 5, 2020
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This book kept me blind right to the last chapter, this story was so well written, his feelings, his descriptions of places and other personalities were described without being boring, all the personalities made this story so realistic, also it being set in Norwich where I was born and lived for the first 13yrs of me life before my family emigrated to Australia gave me warm feeling and great memories Thank you Nathan.
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Rajeev Patel l @the_fusionproject
4.0 out of 5 stars Rollercoaster ride
Reviewed in India on January 5, 2021
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An innocent man sent to prison for life. A lawyer gives him a second chance. Can they overcome an unfair system to clear his name? Gareth Dawson is innocent. He's not a murderer. His main problem is that the British justice system doesn’t agree with him. He might be a reformed thief guilty of many things in his past, but not murder.
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In the space of a few short months, Gareth has gone from being married to the woman of his dreams to facing a life sentence. Inside Her Majesty’s Prison Whitemoor, a Category A prison in Cambridgeshire, Gareth’s got all the time in the world to go over the events that led to the guilty verdict. The guilty verdict which cost him everything in the world that he loved. His dignity. His freedom. His wife.
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Gareth is approached by a lawyer, Paul Dewar, who claims to have information that will vindicate him. But is it enough to set him free? As threats against Gareth increase on the inside, Paul Dewar’s challenge, and Gareth’s fight for freedom, begins. This is a brilliant read. Wonderful well written plot and story line that had me engaged from the start. Love the well fleshed out characters and found them believeable. Great suspense and action with wonderful world building.
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I would definitely recommend this to everyone.
A perfect read. Don't miss this.
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Lynda Kelly
4.0 out of 5 stars Needing Better Proofreading
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 8, 2018
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This one is a 5* story but accompanied by 3* editing at the most so I've averaged it out. Such a real shame when a book should be 5* but it gets spoiled by a lack of decent proofreading. It's a very good courtroom drama and is an interesting case featured as well. You can imagine yourself in Gareth's position with very little difficulty. I liked him a great deal. He doesn't pretend he's an angel and is more than happy to admit to his own faults and it has you warming to him. Even his pals are dead likeable lads. They're real characters he's cleverly created so you care about them.
The most common mistakes are words missed from sentences. This happens loads in e-books but it occurred way too frequently here.....In this sentence it made a lot of difference-"He also pulled out a bunch of photographs of his briefcase..." A few times he needed paragraph breaks as it made confusing reading without them, jumping from one day to the next as it did. He also needs to look at his use of apostrophes and commas (or not).....and for a little variation there were missing speechmarks here and there, too.
He mentions a laptop at one point that someone is carrying yet a couple of pages in refers to it again, noting he'd not spotted it being carried in, which he clearly had !! Another time he mentioned a door being locked and that it had been left unlocked for the first time, yet he'd already referred to it happening the last time he had visitors !! At other points during the trial the CCTV to the pub is referred to yet Gareth had gone in and out of the rear entrance in order to avoid this !! An usher points a remote at a TV yet we'd just been informed he'd already passed said remote to Paul. So this was very sloppy. He had an odd way of repeating somebody's name, too, as opposed to using a pronoun. Here are a couple of examples: " "Morning, Mr Dawson," Mr McLoughlin said as he opened the door.....I thanked him and followed him...fumbling my way into the orange vest Mr Mcloughlin had given me" or ""Laura, good to see you." I extended a hand to Laura...."....it's a most peculiar way to write.
A couple of sentences gained an additional word "Maybe she had should have organised the visit" and "....I'd already handed in the paperwork in three times," deprecating is not spelt as depreciating, Sebastian he spelt this way before he suddenly altered it to Sebastien and he wrote gold course as opposed to golf course then their instead of there and hangar and not hanger !! I was less than impressed. All this type of thing should've been picked up and corrected before publishing it for consumer use.
He is lucky the story is so bloody good or I'd have packed it up, I must say.....I was even quite teary a couple of times near the end. However, I'd not race to read anything else by him, sadly......it was just too much of a chore to wade through.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended. A court room drama with a difference.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 17, 2019
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As someone who only reads fiction now and then, I really have to be taken by a book from the first few pages. I can honestly say that this one gripped me.
I'm a fan of court room dramas in all forms, and this ticked that box.
The main character is instantly recognisable if you come from certain backgrounds, but easy to warm to even if you don't.
Having spent a large part of my working life in prison as a Prison Officer, I think this was well judged. The character of the Officers is recognisable as were the situations within the jail.

The writing throughout is well thought out and includes some especially nice twists.
For me, the writing, the book and the author come into their own during the court case. Although I enjoyed it all, I genuinely struggled to tear myself away during this part of the story.
This is the first book I've read by this author, but I'm certain I'll be checking out his other work.
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Robyn Thomson
5.0 out of 5 stars Hard to put down
Reviewed in Australia on July 16, 2018
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Loved it.
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