The Good Liar

''Denise Mina is crime-writing royalty'' IAN RANKIN

What will it take to tell the truth when your life depends on a lie?

A year ago, a father and his fianc-were brutally stabbed 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. 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 livelihood with her continued complicity or blow the whole conspiracy apart and reveal the truth: not only is the real murderer still out there, they-re in the audience.

As Claudia steps toward the microphone, she revisits that fateful night. What really happened? And what spe