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The Good Liar

If you were responsible for a miscarriage of justice would you admit it?

The truth can set you free. Or destroy your life.

So sharp it’ll cut your fingers' ERIN KELLY
'Mina at her blazing, blood-splattered best' LUCY WORSLEY
'A stand-out read' Guardian
'Propulsive mystery’ ALAFAIR BURKE
‘Blisteringly good' SARAH HILARY
'Taut ... the topics she chooses are serious and urgent' The Scotsman

Blood spatter expert Doctor Claudia O’Sheil’s evidence put a killer behind bars – or so everyone thinks. Since the trial, Claudia has learned a horrific truth: her evidence and her testimony were wrong.

Now as she takes the stage to give a speech before London’s elite specialists, Claudia has to choose: keep lying and leave the wronged killer behind bars or stand up, tell the truth and rip her life apart.

What would you do?

Praise for Denise Mina
'Crime-writing royalty' IAN RANKIN
'A delight' ANN CLEEVES
'Highly original' THE TIMES
'Darkly brilliant' OBSERVER

Authentic, compelling and written with wit so sharp it’ll cut your fingers. Once again, Denise Mina shows the rest of us how it’s done

Erin Kelly

About Denise Mina

Denise Mina is the bestselling author of the Garnethill trilogy, the Paddy Meehan series and the Alex Morrow series, as well as historical novels Rizzio, Three Fires and The Second Murderer, a Philip Marlowe novel for the Chandler estate. She has won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award twice, the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year twice, the Gordon Burn Prize and was inducted into the Crime Writers’ Association Hall of Fame in 2014. Denise also writes graphic novels and plays, and presents television and radio programmes. She studied law and forensic examination at Glasgow University and taught criminology and criminal law part-time at Strathclyde University. Denise lives and works in Glasgow. The Good Liar is her twentieth novel.
Details
  • Imprint: Harvill Secker
  • ISBN: 9781787304284
  • Length: 272 pages
  • Dimensions: 241mm x 26mm x 161mm
  • Weight: 468g
  • Price: £16.99
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