False Witness
Karin Slaughter
An Atlanta defence lawyer's new rape client is the boy she once babysat, and he seems to know what she and her addict sister did years ago
Both: Dark · Tense · Twisty
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Just out of a psychiatric hospital, reporter Camille Preaker is sent back to her Missouri hometown to cover the murders of two young girls. Staying in her childhood home with her cold, controlling mother and the eerie 13-year-old half-sister she barely knows, she increasingly loses herself in the case.
- Thriller & mystery
- Dark
- Tense
- Mental health
- Twisty
- Small town
- Can't put it down
- Medium read
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