Why we’re excited
Josie, a quiet usher at a criminal court, and Natalie, an actress whose career collapsed after a man she accused of rape walked free, seem to share nothing. Yet they team up to bring a predator down, and the story opens with Josie standing trial in the very building where she works. How their partnership turned deadly is the puzzle.
Fiona Barton broke through with The Widow and has kept writing crime that looks closely at how the press and the courts treat women. A courtroom frame suits her well. Readers who like legal suspense told through two unreliable perspectives should keep an eye on this one.
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What to know about Repeat After Me
Fiona Barton is new to The Bookish Elf: none of their books has a review here yet.
From the publisher
A tense and twisty courtroom thriller in which two women who joined forces to catch a predator are now facing off in a fight for their lives.
Shy, cautious Josie is a middle-aged courtroom usher who has never recovered emotionally from the accident that destroyed her family. Natalie is a beautiful young actress, cancelled after the man she accuses of sexual assault is found not guilty. On the surface, they have nothing in common— except a burning sense of justice denied. Now, with Josie on trial in her own courtroom, we learn about the relationship they forged—and how it escalated into delusion and death...
Fast-paced, suspenseful and heartbreaking, Repeat After Me has the destabilizing momentum of a runaway train...and the crash is coming.
Description supplied by the publisher.
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