Denise Mina discusses The Good Liar

Barbara Peters and Patrick Millikin welcomed Denise Mina for a discussion of her twentieth book, The Good Liar. Today is release day for the book that is on order. You can order your copy of The Good Liar through the Webstore. https://bit.ly/3U46vTZ

Here’s the summary of The Good Liar.

In this provocative mystery from beloved crime writer Denise Mina, new evidence in an old murder case forces one woman to make an impossible choice.

WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO TELL THE TRUTH WHEN YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON A LIE?

A year ago, a father and his fiancée were brutally murdered in their opulent London townhouse, sparking the most high-profile murder investigation in recent history. Blood spatter expert Doctor Claudia O’Sheil’s evidence put the killer behind bars—or so everyone believes. But since the trial, Claudia’s learned a horrific truth: her evidence and her testimony were wrong. And someone she knows made sure of it.

Now, as she takes the stage to give a career-defining speech before London’s elite, Claudia faces a devastating choice. Protect her children and her career with her continued complicity, or blow the whole conspiracy apart and reveal the truth: not only is the real murderer still out there, but they’re in the audience.

As Claudia steps toward the microphone, she revisits that fateful night. What really happened? And what will Claudia say?


Denise Mina is the author of twenty novels, including the Reese’s Book Club pick Conviction and its sequel Confidence, as well as The Second MurdererThe Less Dead, The Long Drop—winner of the 2017 McIlvanney Prize for Scottish crime book of the year—and the Garnethill trilogy, the first installment of which won the John Creasey Memorial Award for best first crime novel, among others. Mina has twice received the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. She lives in Glasgow.


Enjoy the interview with Denise Mina as she talks about The Good Liar, and mentions the article that inspired the book.