The Good Liar, Denise Mina
The Good Liar, Denise Mina
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The Good Liar
A Novel

Author: Denise Mina

Narrator: Lois Chimimba

Unabridged: 10 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/29/2025

Synopsis

In this provocative mystery from beloved crime writer Denise Mina, new evidence in an old murder case forces one woman to make an impossible choice.

WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO TELL THE TRUTH WHEN YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON A LIE?
 
A year ago, a father and his fiancée were brutally murdered in their opulent London townhouse, sparking the most high-profile murder investigation in recent history. Blood spatter expert Doctor Claudia O’Sheil’s evidence put the killer behind bars—or so everyone believes. But since the trial, Claudia’s learned a horrific truth: her evidence and her testimony were wrong. And someone she knows made sure of it.
 
Now, as she takes the stage to give a career-defining speech before London’s elite, Claudia faces a devastating choice. Protect her children and her career with her continued complicity, or blow the whole conspiracy apart and reveal the truth: not only is the real murderer still out there, but they’re in the audience.
 
As Claudia steps toward the microphone, she revisits that fateful night. What really happened? And what will Claudia say?

About Denise Mina

Denise Mina was born in Glasgow in 1966. She left school at sixteen and did a number of poorly paid jobs: working in a meat factory, bar maid, kitchen porter and cook. Eventually she settle in auxiliary nursing for geriatric and terminal care patients. At twenty one she passed exams, got into study Law at Glasgow University and went on to research a PhD thesis at Strathclyde University on the ascription of mental illness to female offenders, teaching criminology and criminal law in the mean time. Misusing her grant she stayed at home and wrote a novel, Garnethill when she was supposed to be studying instead. Garnethill won the Crime Writers' Association John Creasy Dagger for the best first crime novel and was the start of a trilogy completed by Exile and Resolution. A fourth novel followed, a stand alone, named Sanctum in the UK and Deception in the US. As well as all of this she writes short stories published in various collections, stories for BBC Radio 4, contributes to TV and radio as a big red face at the corner of the sofa who interjects occasionally, is writing a film adaptation of Ida Tamson, and has a number of other projects on the go.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jayme on July 29, 2025

New evidence in an old murder case will force a forensic scientist to make an impossible choice- If she admits that her research is flawed-old cases may have to be reopened and her own reputation and career will most definitely be ruined.-Will she expose the truth? Doctor Claudia O’Sheil is approachi......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on May 26, 2025

We do not appreciate Denise Mina enough. She has been writing incredibly consistent crime novels for over 25 years and she's writing some of her best stuff recently. The Good Liar is a great study of an antihero that has a twisty plot and some great character depths to explore. I want to take a mome......more

Goodreads review by Stephen the Bookworm on July 30, 2025

This is a crime procedural with a twist that the key protagonist /investigator is a blood splatter expert- Claudia O'Sheil. Following the murder of an aristocrat and his fiancee , suspicion falls on the son. Claudia is convinced that the son is innocent despite the fact evidence appears to condemn hi......more

Goodreads review by Sue on July 21, 2025

The Good Liar is my second experience reading a book written by Denise Mina and cements my earlier belief that I must read more of her novels. In The Good Liar, we meet Dr. Claudia O’Sheil a forensics expert famous for having developed a formula for assessing blood spatter patterns for useful data t......more

Goodreads review by Sheila on June 16, 2025

I received a free copy of, The Good Liar, by Denise Mina, from the publisher and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Is Dr. Claudia O'Sheil a good liar or not? Did she send an innocent man to prison with evidence she provided? I did not care for the language in this book, This book was a lit......more

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