The stunning new thriller from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author
You thought no one saw you. You were wrong.Leigh and her sister Callie are not bad people - but one night, more than two decades ago, they did something terrible. And the result was a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, devastated by violence.
Years later, Leigh has pushed that night from her mind and become a successful lawyer - but when she is forced to take on a new client against her will, her world begins to spiral out of control.
Because the client knows the truth about what happened twenty-three years ago. He knows what Leigh and Callie did. And unless they stop him, he's going to tear their lives apart ... Just because you didn't see the witness ... doesn't mean he wasn't there.
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From the kitchen, Callie heard Trevor tapping his fingers on the aquarium. SUMMER 1998
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(@HarperCollinsUK, 24 June 2021, 338 pages, ebook, #ARC from the publisher via # NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed)
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I've started to read Slaughter's work again after a few years and have started to fall in love with her writing all over again. I was looking forward to getting stuck into False Witness even though it's not part of the regular Grant County / Atlanta series. This ticks all the boxes for a corker of a thriller; fast paced, well-written, full of misdirection and twists and turns. I loved the fact I started to think I knew where the book was going only for another curve-ball to be hurled at me. I also loved the way the past impacts on the present with both Leigh and Callie still haunted by what they did, which was justified. I loved both characters, so real they walked off the page and settled down next to me to read their story over my shoulder. I had no idea where the book was going to go. I thought the ending was great, not what I expected at all, but satisfactory.