A year ago, a father and his fiancâee were brutally murdered in their opulent London townhouse, sparking the most high-profile murder investigation in recent history. Blood spatter expert Doctor Claudia O'Sheil's evidence put the killer behind bars—or so everyone believes. But since the trial, Claudia's learned a horrific truth: her evidence and her testimony were wrong. And someone she knows made sure of it. Now, as she takes the stage to give a career-defining speech before London's elite, Claudia faces a devastating choice. Protect her children and her career with her continued complicity, or blow the whole conspiracy apart and reveal the truth: not only is the real murderer still out there, but they're in the audience.
Adrenaline floods the page ... A novel as exciting and rich as any Ms. Mina has written ... Both a tightly wound thriller and a sharp portrait of the British upper class ... Claudia is complex and convincing ... Each murder motive is revealed with impeccable timing ... Ms. Mina’s descriptions transfigure the familiar...and powerfully evoke a widow’s sense of the world as 'a giant, aching vacuum of lost wonders.'
Mina...will keep readers in suspense as she weaves a complex web of personal and professional relationships with gruesome crime-scene details and high-stakes life choices. Mystery fans will love this.
Suspenseful ... Taut and twisty ... Effectively interrogates notions of principles, power, privilege and protection as much as it does the crime itself ... Readers are likely to clamor for such a sequel, so they can see for themselves the consequences for Claudia and spend more time in the company of this smart, morally complicated protagonist.
