The Good Liar

Authentic, compelling and written with wit so sharp it’ll cut your fingers. Once again, Denise Mina shows the rest of us how it’s done

Erin Kelly

Filled with intelligence, intensity, and empathy, The Good Liar is a taut, propulsive mystery about family, truth, and morality. Denise Mina is such a talent

Alafair Burke, New York Times bestselling author of The Note

Denise Mina sets the gold standard in crime fiction that is whip-smart, funny and insightful. This has it all: a cat and mouse game with the highest stakes, diabolically clever forensics, and characters that crackle from the page. Blisteringly good.

Sarah Hilary, author of the Marnie Rome series

[A] compelling and suspenseful study of complicity… a stand-out read

Guardian

This is Denise Mina at her blazing, blood-splattered best. Protagonist Doctor Claudia is the bee's knees, and you can tell Mina's having a blast in her company. You will too

Lucy Worsley

Part of what makes Mina such an interesting writer is that the science is a background to the moral and ethical questions she is posing ... taut ... the topics she chooses are serious and urgent'

Scotsman

For me, Mina is the UK’s finest living writer of crime fiction… No one gets under the skin of characters quite the way Mina does. She’s sublime, and this book is too

Abir Mukherjee, The Times, *Summer Reads of 2025*

Intelligent as ever, Mina judiciously orchestrates suspense and anatomises issues of class - and even the nature of truth

Financial Times

The UK's finest living writer of crime ... No one gets under the skin of characters quite the way Mina does. She's sublime, and this book is too

Abir Mukherjee, THE TIMES