title: Judgement Call (A Henry Christie Mystery)
author:  Nick Oldham 
description: Oldhams latest in his popular Henry Christie series takes readers back to 1982, when Christie joined the police during his callow, shallow twenties. Its hard not to dislike Henry, whos a man-boy behaving badly and sometimes despicably. Henrys been reassigned to the sleepy Rossendale Valley, and hes bored out of his mind. If only a good, meaty case would come along so he could prove what a great cop he is. Naturally, such a case does come alonga series of increasingly brutal robberies. No one has died yet, but Henrys sure that will be next. Meanwhile, Henry must also contend with his cantankerous, complicated, crazy boss, Robert FB Fanshawe-Bailey. Conflict between old-style cop FB and modern man Henry is inevitable, but out of their sparring comes a new level of maturity for Henry, who begins to display some of the principles that stand out in later books. A violent, gripping plot nicely wedded to a fascinating character study. --Emily Melton
zlib_text: **CALLING DOWN THE STORM**
  
   _ **Calling Down the Storm**_ **is the story of two separate but strangely
  parallel lives: the life of a defendant on trial for murder, and the life of
  the judge who presides over his trial.**
  
   _April 1971._ When DI Webb and DS Raymond arrive at Harpur Mews in Bloomsbury
  in response to a 999 call, a horrific scene awaits them. Susan Lang is lying
  on the ground, bleeding to death. Her husband Henry is sitting nearby, holding
  a large, blood-stained knife. In shock, Henry claims to have no memory of the
  events that led to his wife’s death, leaving his barrister, Ben Schroeder,
  little with which to defend a potential charge of murder.
  
  Unknown to his strict Baptist wife, Deborah, who lives in the family home in
  Guildford, Mr Justice Conrad Rainer has a secret life in his London flat, a
  life as a high-stakes gambler. In his desperation for money to fund his
  gaming, he has already raided his own and Deborah’s resources, and now he has
  crossed another line – one 