Stung

Stung is a legal thriller featuring the lawyer Arthur Beauchamp, who takes on what may be the most explosive trial of his career. He is defending seven rowdy environmentalists accused of sabotaging an Ontario plant that makes a pesticide blamed for killing off honeybees in huge numbers. The story moves back and forth between two places. One is Toronto, where the trial is held. The other is Arthur's home on an island off the West Coast, where he is arrested while fighting an environmental battle of his own, over the threatened destruction of a popular park. The Toronto trial builds to a nail-biting jury verdict. The novel is by William Deverell and is part of his Arthur Beauchamp series.