Blood orange

A young lawyer's outwardly perfect life spirals out of control as she takes on her first murder case in this dark and twisty debut thriller for readers of Paula Hawkins A.J. Finn or Shari Lapena. I did it. I killed him. I should be locked up. Alison a young lawyer has just been given her first murder case to defend. Her new client is a meek housewife who doesn't deny that she stabbed her husband. In fact she's desperate to plead guilty. But the deeper Alison digs into her story the more she suspects that something is gravely amiss. Get your hands off me. And in Alison's own life too all is not as it seems. With a doting husband an adorable daughter and a blossoming career she has everything she could want right? But Alison is deeply entangled in a toxic affair with her senior legal partner--a man whose influence helped land her the murder case but whose taste for pushing boundaries may be more than she can handle--and unable to extricate herself. She's in way over her head. And as the murder case escalates she can't stop her personal life from spinning further and further out of control. I'm watching you. I know what you're doing. But someone knows Alison's secret. Someone who wants to make Alison pay for what she's done and who won't stop until she's lost everything. A deeply disturbing toxic and compelling novel that explores the power of fear and desire jealousy and betrayal love and hate BLOOD ORANGE introduces a fresh and distinctive new voice in psychological suspense.