After That Night: The gripping new 2023 crime suspense thriller from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author: Book 11 (The Will Trent Series)

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This business bypasses "lurid," starts at "stagy" and gradually works its way through various levels of "ridiculous." But having read much of False Witness, I can't say it's unsophisticated. Slaughter balances her A-storyline, the courtroom plot of an attorney in trouble, with a terrific B-storyline in which the attorney's sister, a junkie living from one score to the next, gets involved in protecting her family and putting the antagonist away. The multi-layered plot and how the past interweaved nicely with the present case, the parallels had me so hooked and it was hard to put down. Although this was very long and detailed, every chapter had some sort of reveal or important information so that kept me interested. On a Sunday night at her daughter’s school play, she gets a call from one of the firm's partners who wants Leigh to come on board to defend a wealthy man accused of multiple counts of rape. Though wary of the case, it becomes apparent she doesn't have much choice if she wants to keep her job. They're scheduled to go to trial in one week. When she meets the accused face-to-face, she realizes that it’s no coincidence that he’s specifically asked for her to represent him. She knows him. And he knows her. More to the point, he may know what happened over twenty years ago, and why Leigh has spent two decades avoiding her past. Leigh and Callie are two sisters who’ve grown up together. But that’s where the similarity ends. Their futures would hold far different paths. It’s so rare to find a mystery thriller that has such well developed characters and False Witness is probably one of the best I’ve seen so far. I loved the sisters. I didn’t realise how much I connected and rooted for them till the end because It actually made me emotional (I usually have a heart of stone :D).

I‘ve been reading Karin Slaughter’s books for years, enjoying her series just as much as her stand-alone. And this is no exception. Yet another fabulous addition! overall, this is a well-developed story and intriguingly answers the question “how far would you go for someone you care about?” GUYS I FINALLY DID IT!!!! I FINISHED AN ENTIRE KARIN SLAUGHTER BOOK!!!!!!! I've had a couple false starts with False Witness: The stunning crime mystery suspense thriller from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of AFTER THAT NIGHT, GIRL FORGOTTEN and PIECES OF HER, Girl, Forgotten, and Pretty Girls but I overcame the odds and finished this one.And look, Slaughter is no novice to writing violence and sexual violence. If you go into one of her books, you’ve got to prepare yourself for that inevitability. The violence in False Witness, though, did have a different feeling to it. Usually I would expect the very beginning to have an assault or murder, then the middle would be a sometimes graphic investigation of those crime(s), with the ending usually containing a violent confrontation of some kind. For its part, False Witness was less explicit than say, Pretty Girls, but there were a good number of assaults peppered throughout the middle as well. And this violence was a lot more brazen and unrepentant, if at times a little cathartic. Narrated by Leigh and Callie, I loved both. Each offers a very different perspective on their pasts. Leigh has grown up to be a tough-as-nails high-priced lawyer, whereas Callie is a junkie struggling to survive her addiction. Both sisters are intelligent and have a razor-sharp wit. Callie’s crazy names for the dogs and cats at the animal clinic kept me smiling. And now for the COVID angle. The talk of masks and hand sanitizer didn’t really bother me until towards the end, when it seemed to be brought up in every chapter. Nothing wrong with that, except that some of the characters initially seemed extremely careful, and then forgot to wear their masks and wash their hands when it was convenient for them to do so. 😷 However, the author’s note is truly an informative delight as Slaughter describes what brought her to include COVID in the story. Although themes of sexual and drug abuse, misogyny, poverty, abuse of power, bullying, and racism may trouble some readers, I do admire Karin Slaughter for weaving these themes into her books. I do like authors who bring these themes out in the novels to create a better understanding of the world we live in, and the conditions and abuses people live with every day. In Karin Slaughter's case these themes always feel part of the story rather than using them to grab the headlines and sales.

The plot is complex but riveting. There is a sense of despair as the rapist appears to get away with his crime, but Sara, Faith and Will are spurred on by another very similar crime and an apparent connection to Sara's rape many years earlier. A: It’s crazy because it’s all happening in Australia. They were set up to film in Vancouver, then the pandemic hit. Toni’s from Australia and the producer knows how to get a show done there. It’s so weird seeing photographs of Toni holding the blue Samsonite suitcase I wrote about on my laptop while I was in my pajamas, and suddenly it’s there, realized.

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Leigh only has a week to get up to speed before the trial, but the reason they know each other will only fare well for only one of them. She has no choice but to reach out to her estranged sister, Callie, for help. Callie is now a drug addict and has been faltering on and off.

One day, she assigned to represent a man who is accused for rape. The man’s name is Andrew Tenant and he insists he knows her. Actually he knows old her! He knows what she and her sister have involved in. Callie and Leigh were brought up by a mother who repeatedly abused them. At a young age, they had to find work to stay alive and feed themselves.Slaughter's fans will be avid for the latest in this bestselling series, while its costar, state investigator Will Trent, has inspired a show on ABC, further expanding Slaughter's already vast audience.”