2025 McIlvanney Prize (shortlist)
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?
The McIlvanney Prize Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2025 Finalist
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
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?
The McIlvanney Prize Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2025 Finalist
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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