The Good Liar

The McIlvanney Prize Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2025 Finalist 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 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? More praise for Denise Mina 'Crime-writing royalty' IAN RANKIN 'A delight' ANN CLEEVES 'Highly original' THE TIMES 'Darkly brilliant' OBSERVER 'Denise Mina is a one-of-a-kind storyteller' JAMES PATTERSON ‘Britain's best living crime writer’ SUNDAY EXPRESS ‘Forensic, beautiful and gripping’ GRAHAM NORTON ‘Crime fiction at its very best’ JOSEPH KNOX