The gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling phenomenon, VOX ‘Shocking, emotive, urgent and original’ Chris Whitaker ’A non-stop thrill ride’ Jeffery Deaver ’Queen of the “what if” thriller. Unflinching, unguessable and unputdownable’ Simon Lelic The gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling phenomenon, VOX ‘Shocking, emotive, urgent and original’ Chris Whitaker ’A non-stop thrill ride’ Jeffery Deaver ’Queen of the “what if” thriller. Unflinching, unguessable and unputdownable’ Simon Lelic ’Thrilling, topical and timely … I ripped through this in a few days’ Louise Swanson ’Provocative, inventive and compulsively page-turning’ David Koepp The one decision you can’t take back Prosecutor, Justine Boucher has only asked for the death penalty once, in a brutal murder case. In doing so, she put her own life on the line. Because, if the convicted are later found innocent, the lawyer who requested the execution will be sentenced to death. Justine had no doubt that the man she sent to the chair was guilty. Until now. Presented with evidence that could prove his innocence, Justine must find out the truth before anyone else does. Her life depends on it. Praise for The Sentence ‘Chilling, thought-provoking and furiously compelling. I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough.’ B P WALTER ’Absorbing, dynamic, button-pushing’ ROSS ARMSTRONG ‘A riveting treatise on criminal justice’ ALLISON DICKSON ‘Thought-provoking, intelligent and utterly gripping’ ROZ WATKINS Praise for Christina Dalcher ‘A truly compulsive novel’ STYLIST ‘Intelligent, suspenseful, provocative, and intensely disturbing – everything a great novel should be’ LEE CHILD ‘Thought-provoking and thrilling’ WOMAN & HOME ‘Extraordinary’ LOUISE O’NEILL ‘A fast-paced, twisting thriller’ DAILY MAIL ‘Terrifyingly plausible’ LOUISE CANDLISH ‘[Dalcher] knows how to hit the emotional buttons . . .compelling’ GUARDIAN The gripping provocative new legal thriller for 2023 from the author of VOX Christina Dalcher is the Sunday Times bestselling author of VOX, Q and Femlandia. She earned her doctorate in theoretical linguistics from Georgetown University, specialising in the phonetics of sound change in Italian and British dialects. She and her husband split their time between the American South and Naples, Italy. The gripping provocative new legal thriller for 2023 from the author of VOX • The pulse-pounding high-concept thriller from the bestselling author of VOX for fans of The Chain and Thirteen• Poses a brilliant moral question: If prosecutors faced the death penalty themselves over wrongful conviction, would they seek it for those they prosecute?• Female protagonist fighting to get the truth about the one murderer she sent to the chair – who may have been innocent after all. Now her life is on the line. Competition: Vox;Q;Femlandia;The Chain;Thirteen;Notes on an Execution;The Green Mile;Agent Seventeen;Conviction;I am Pilgrim;The Power. Adrian McKinty;Steve Cavanagh;Danya Kukafka;Stephen King;Steven King;Michael Connelly;Don Winslow;John Brownlow;Jack Jordan;John Marrs;Naomi Alderman
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