Louise Tickle

Between the Lies

 

When it comes to families, is anyone a reliable witness?

 

 

Cherry Magraw can never forget the date her mother and brother were killed – the night of her ninth birthday. When her father was jailed for their murders, she lost everyone she loved.

 

Twenty years later, Cherry is a freelance journalist investigating domestic abuse and the secret world of the family courts, when she gets a letter from her father – still in prison for the killings – which contains a startling request. From that point on, her past becomes entangled with her work, dismantling everything Cherry thought she knew about her family tragedy and plunging her into a dangerous game of cat and mouse.

 

Will her history cloud her judgement about another desperate family? And how far will she go to save someone else’s children?

This book is brilliant: gripping, powerful and one of the best thrillers I've ever read - I could not put it down.

 

VICTORIA DERBYSHIRE

 

 

This is a beautifully-written and unputdownable thriller about the very important subjects of femicide, domestic abuse and family courts. It kept me gripped until the very end.

 

SONIA SODHA Chief leader writer, The Observer