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Reasonable Doubt on Barrington Street

Name: Reasonable Doubt on Barrington Street
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Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Author: Adrian Vale

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A tired Halifax defence lawyer, a client who says nothing and a single key that should not have fit the lock.

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Mara Doucette has defended three hundred people in the provincial court and believed about half of them. Her new client, a night cleaner accused of breaking into a jeweller on Barrington Street, will not tell her anything at all. The Crown has video, a fingerprint and a key found in his pocket. Mara has a fog-bound week, a sceptical judge and one question nobody else is asking: who cut that key? A tight courtroom novella from a lawyer who knows the building.

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Mara Doucette met Joel Pardy in the cells under the courthouse at eight in the morning, which was the only time the cells were quiet. He was forty, wore a cleaner’s uniform with a name tag that said JOE, and folded his hands on the steel table like a man in church. She explained who she was, what he was charged with and what would happen at ten. He nodded at each part. He did not say a word. The charge was break and enter at Farrow Jewellers on Barrington Street, a narrow old shop with a green d

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Title: Reasonable Doubt on Barrington Street
Author: Adrian Vale
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Language: English
Category: Law & Legal · Mystery & Investigation
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★★★★★ · ted•••@readers.staging.smithbook.test9/30/2026

Halifax in the fog

I walk past that courthouse every day. He gets the cold and the harbour smell perfectly.

★★★★★ · rus•••@readers.staging.smithbook.test9/30/2026

Feels completely real

The cross-examination in chapter three is one of the best courtroom scenes I have read. No shouting, all precision.

★★★★☆ · una•••@readers.staging.smithbook.test9/29/2026

Smart puzzle

The key detail is fair and clever. I did not see it until she did.

★★★★☆ · sue•••@readers.staging.smithbook.test9/29/2026

Short and sharp

I wanted another hundred pages of Mara. The ending is quiet and exactly right.

About the author

Adrian Vale

I have practised criminal defence in Halifax for seventeen years, most of it in the provincial court on Spring Garden Road, where the coffee is bad and the stakes are not. The same questions come to me every week, usually at two in the morning, usually from someone standing in a hallway with a police officer at the door. So I started writing the answers down in words a tired person can follow. Nothing I write is legal advice for your situation. It is a map, so you know which questions to ask. I live in the North End with my partner, two teenagers and a rowing machine I use as a coat rack.

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