2025 McIlvanney Prize (shortlist)
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
Genre: Mystery
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
Genre: Mystery
Praise for this book
"Filled with intelligence, intensity, and empathy, The Good Liar is a taut, propulsive mystery about family, truth, and morality. Denise Mina is such a talent." - Alafair Burke
"Authentic, compelling and written with wit so sharp it'll cut your fingers. Once again, Denise Mina shows the rest of us how it's done." - Erin Kelly
"Authentic, compelling and written with wit so sharp it'll cut your fingers. Once again, Denise Mina shows the rest of us how it's done." - Erin Kelly
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