**THE EXTRAORDINARY NEW THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BLOOD ORANGE, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW**
Two teenage girls. One murdered classmate.
And a modern-day witch trial that will divide the nation.
When 18-year-old Christian Shaw is found dead in an Edinburgh park, the city reels - and the shock only deepens when police charge her best friends, Eliza Lawson and Isobel Smyth, with her murder.
As social media explodes and headlines scream for justice, rumours of bullying spiral into something darker: whispers of rituals, obsession, and a teenage pact gone wrong.
Matthew Phillips, a respected heart surgeon, is reluctantly called for jury duty on the case. But as the trial unfolds - and the girls reveal a chilling defence no one saw coming - he begins to question everything: the motives, the evidence, even his own judgement.
Who's telling the truth? Who can be trusted?
And what really happened to Christian Shaw?
Let the Witch Trial begin . . .
AUTHORS LOVE HARRIET TYCE:
'The shocks kept coming right up to the final pages' LISA JEWELL
'A classy thriller with complex and compelling characters' CLARE MACKINTOSH
'Totally addictive - I was gripped' SOPHIE HANNAH
'Nothing short of unputdownable. One of the best openings I've read in forever' ALEX MICHAELIDES
'A shocking, provocative, standout thriller' CHRIS WHITAKER
'Left me breathless' LUCY CLARKE
'Delicious and addictive - a perfectly crafted treat!' LOUISE CANDLISH
'In the very top tier of psychological thrillers' M. W. CRAVEN
'Perfect plotting, utterly brilliant' B. A. PARIS
'Imaginatively told and bingeable' JOHN MARRS
PRAISE FOR WITCH TRIAL:
'A legal thriller unlike any you've ever read, this mind-melting page-turner is Tyce at her whip-smart best' ELLERY LLOYD
'Dark, wry, and slippery underfoot, I adored it!' SARAH PINBOROUGH
'Clever, propulsive, with a wickedly satisfying twist. Excellent. My favourite Tyce book yet.' C.E. HULSE
'Delves deeply into the perceptions of female cunning. Brilliant.' HEATHER CRITCHLOW
Rezensionen / Stimmen
'A legal thriller unlike any you've ever read, this witchy, mind-melting page-turner is Tyce at her whip-smart best.' * Ellery Lloyd * 'Witch Trial is like the lovechild of Alfred Hitchcock and The Crucible. Dark, wry, and slippery underfoot, I adored it!' * Sarah Pinborough * 'Clever, propulsive, with a wickedly satisfying twist. Excellent. My favourite Tyce book yet.' * C.E. Hulse * At first sight a legal thriller, Witch Trial is multi-layered and subtle, delving deeply into the intricacies of the relationships between teenage girls and perceptions of female cunning. We are plunged into a world where nothing is as it seems. Brilliant. * Heather Critchlow *
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Headline Publishing Group
Produkt-Hinweis
Maße
Höhe: 240 mm
Breite: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-0354-1191-7 (9781035411917)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Harriet Tyce grew up in Edinburgh and studied English at Oxford University before doing a law conversion course at City University. She practised as a criminal barrister in London for nearly a decade, and subsequently completed an MA in Creative Writing - Crime Fiction at the University of East Anglia. She lives in north London. Her first novel, Blood Orange, published in 2019 to huge critical acclaim and her second, third and fourth novels The Lies You Told, It Ends at Midnight and A Lesson in Cruelty have been Sunday Times bestsellers. Witch Trial is her fifth novel.
