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False Witness

by Karin Slaughter

A defense case with a personal history

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A defense case with a personal history

Atlanta attorney Leigh Collier is assigned to defend a wealthy man accused of multiple rapes, only to recognize him as someone connected to the past she has spent decades avoiding. The case, set to go to trial within a week, becomes entangled with blackmail and the possibility that long-hidden family history will come to light. Leigh’s estranged younger sister Callie is also drawn into the crisis. The novel combines a legal case with a family-centered psychological thriller, placing professional pressure alongside unresolved ties between two sisters. Its contemporary backdrop includes Leigh’s work and co-parenting during a pandemic.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in psychological thrillers involving concealed pasts and family secrets
  • Readers who enjoy crime fiction built around a defense attorney and a high-stakes case
  • Readers seeking stories centered on strained sibling relationships

Themes

Family secrets and betrayalEstranged sisterhoodLegal defense and criminal accusationsBlackmail and the past

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Book overview

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"There's deception, sabotage, violence, family secrets . . . all the stuff you could want from a fictional page-turner."-- theSkimm

He saw what you did. He knows who you are...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her and The Silent Wife, an electrifying standalone psychological thriller.

AN ORDINARY LIFE...

Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She's an up-and-coming defense attorney at a prestigious law firm in Atlanta, would do anything for her sixteen-year-old daughter Maddy, and is managing to successfully coparent through a pandemic after an amicable separation from her husband Walter.

HIDES A DEVASTATING PAST...

But Leigh's ordinary life masks a childhood no one should have to endure ... a childhood tarnished by dark family secrets, broken by betrayal, and ultimately destroyed by a brutal act of violence.

BUT NOW THE PAST IS CATCHING UP...

On a Sunday night at her daughter's school play, she gets a call from one of the firm's partners who wants Leigh to come on board to defend a wealthy man accused of multiple counts of rape. Though wary of the case, it becomes apparent she doesn't have much choice if she wants to keep her job. They're scheduled to go to trial in one week. When she meets the accused face-to-face, she realizes in a moment of chilling suspense that it's no coincidence that he's specifically asked for her to represent him. She knows him. And he knows her. More to the point, he may know what happened over twenty years ago, and why Leigh has spent two decades avoiding her past.

AND TIME IS RUNNING OUT.

Suddenly she has a lot more to lose than this case as she's pulled into a dangerous game of blackmail. The only person who can help is her younger, estranged sister Callie--the last person Leigh would ever want to drag into this after all they've been through. But with the life-shattering truth in danger of being revealed, she has no choice...

"A high-stakes thriller . . . Her heroines are believable, flawed and courageous." -OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE

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