I was hooked the moment I heard about this book from fellow author friends. One author whose skills and opinion I highly respect has read an advance copy and said he’d intended to read for a few minutes before bed, but had powered through half of the book before realising how late it was! If that’s not the stamp of approval, then I don’t know what is.
I challenge you to read the blurb below and not scramble to pick up your own copy. I know I’m looking forward to getting stuck in…
An inventive and ambitious speculative courtroom thriller – Shutter Island meets The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
‘I look up to find twelve strangers staring back at me… I realise I’m the one they’re waiting for.’
Lila Dalton has no memory of how she got to this courtroom. The man in the docks is accused of mass murder, and she’s his barrister – but she can’t remember anything about the case. She can’t remember anything at all.
Lila is stranded on an island hundreds of miles from the UK, where the most serious crimes go to trial. The next plane out doesn’t leave for days.
And she’s being watched. Someone keeps breaking into her hotel room to leave cryptic notes, threatening her with deadly consequences if she doesn’t get her client off…
Can Lila Dalton win her case and solve the mystery of her own identity?
Release date(s):
– UK and Commonwealth: 1 February 2024
– US and Canada: 27 August 2024
G. B. Ralph 