False Witness: The Stunning Crime Mystery Suspense Thriller from the No. 1 Sunday Times Bestselling Author of After THAT NIGHT, GIRL FORGOTTEN and PIECES of HER

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HarperCollins Publishers Australia, 2022 - Fiction - 448 pages

Two sisters. One secret. Someone knows what they did ... The stunning standalone from the no.1 international bestselling author



They thought they'd got away with it ... they 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.

Praise for False Witness:

'Heart-stopping one moment, heart-breaking the next. Slaughter at her finest' Cara Hunter, author of All the Rage

'Her heroines are believable, flawed and courageous' Oyinkan Braithwaite, author of My Sister, The Serial Killer

'Absorbing' Sunday Times

'Dizzyingly dark and breathlessly compelling ... Utterly unforgettable' B. P. Walter, author of The Dinner Guest

'Rich characters and deft plotting make this an unputdownable story that will move you to the core. This is Slaughter's best yet' Camilla Lackberg, author of the Fjallbacka series

'A twisty, searingly contemporary mystery steeped in a dark past...catches your breath and keeps you gasping and guessing until the end' Stacey Abrams, author of While Justice Sleeps

'Brilliant' Herald Sun

'[This is] what Slaughter does best; fusing the humdrum outside world with the gripping bones of a cutting-edge thriller' The Australian

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About the author (2022)

Karin Slaughter was born in Georgia on January 6, 1971. In 2001, she published her first novel, Blindsighted, which made the Dagger Award shortlist for Best Thriller Debut. She is the author of the Grant County series and the Will Trent series. Her stand-alone novels include Cop Town, Pretty Girls, and Pieces of Her.

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