False Witness
The stunning crime mystery suspense thriller from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of AFTER THAT NIGHT, GIRL FORGOTTEN and PIECES OF HER
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4.3 • 493 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Two sisters. One secret. Someone knows what they did ... The stunning standalone from the no.1 international bestselling author
They thought they'd got away with it ... they were wrong.
Leigh and her sister Callie are not bad people - but one night, more than two decades ago, they did something terrible. And the result was a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, devastated by violence.
Years later, Leigh has pushed that night from her mind and become a successful lawyer - but when she is forced to take on a new client against her will, her world begins to spiral out of control.
Because the client knows the truth about what happened twenty-three years ago. He knows what Leigh and Callie did. And unless they stop him, he's going to tear their lives apart ...
Just because you didn't see the witness ... doesn't mean he wasn't there.
Praise for False Witness:
'Heart-stopping one moment, heart-breaking the next. Slaughter at her finest' Cara Hunter, author of All the Rage
'Her heroines are believable, flawed and courageous' Oyinkan Braithwaite, author of My Sister, The Serial Killer
'Absorbing' Sunday Times
'Dizzyingly dark and breathlessly compelling ... Utterly unforgettable' B. P. Walter, author of The Dinner Guest
'Rich characters and deft plotting make this an unputdownable story that will move you to the core. This is Slaughter's best yet' Camilla Lackberg, author of the Fjallbacka series
'A twisty, searingly contemporary mystery steeped in a dark past...catches your breath and keeps you gasping and guessing until the end' Stacey Abrams, author of While Justice Sleeps
'Brilliant' Herald Sun
'[This is] what Slaughter does best; fusing the humdrum outside world with the gripping bones of a cutting-edge thriller' The Australian
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A woman’s traumatic past creeps insidiously into the present in this gripping thriller from Karin Slaughter. Leigh Collier is a successful attorney who’s spent her entire adult life trying to push away the violent event that nearly destroyed her two decades earlier. Now the stability she’s worked so hard for threatens to come crashing down when she discovers that her new client is deeply connected to that terrible experience—and he’s intent on making her remember it. With her hard-won bravery and sarcastic asides, Leigh is a wonderfully relatable heroine, and we were riveted by her harrowing ordeal. Slaughter doesn’t gloss over the tragic realities that can often accompany traumatic acts of violence, diving fearlessly into topics like sexual abuse, drug addiction, and mental illness. A rollercoaster of emotions and a white-knuckle thriller in one—just wait until you get to the first twist!—False Witness is the unputdownable listen you’ve been waiting for.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In 1998, teen sisters Callie and Leigh, the heroines of this superb thriller from bestseller Slaughter (The Silent Wife), murder Buddy Waleski, who sexually abused them for years while they babysat his son, Trevor, in Chicago. They leave the Waleski kitchen spotless after cleaning up any evidence of the murder and hide Buddy's body. In 2021, Callie, who became addicted to heroin after a gymnastics accident left her in constant pain, and Leigh, a defense attorney, unexpectedly confront the past after Leigh's boss assigns the case of an alleged serial killer to her. During their first meeting, Andrew Tenant tells Leigh he's actually the little boy she once babysat—Trevor Waleski—and implies that he knows the sisters killed his father. Callie and Leigh work urgently to determine how and what he knows. Breaking into the abandoned former Waleski house, Callie finds a crawl space with cameras aimed both at the kitchen where Buddy's murder occurred and the living room couch where Callie was repeatedly raped as a 12-year-old by Buddy. If Leigh doesn't secure a not guilty verdict, the pathological Andrew threatens to retaliate by releasing his father's videos to the media and murdering her 16-year-old daughter. A shocking tragedy at the end will keep readers transfixed. Slaughter is writing at the top of her game.
Customer Reviews
False Witness
I just love this author & she has managed to get me back into reading after many years abstaining. The third book I’ve read in the last couple of months & this is the best so far! I’m hooked!
Wow
This book was gobsmacking! I couldn’t put it down. It was an absolute cracker!
Worst book Karin has written
This was a boring read; so much so I couldn’t finish it. Very disappointing.