The Interpreter
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  • Published: 8 June 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529904581
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $32.00

The Interpreter

The most dangerous person in the courtroom isn’t the killer…

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26 Mar 2024
EBook
8 Jun 2023
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8 Jun 2023
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Innocent or guilty. It's all a matter of interpretation... Vintage's lead crime thriller debut, for readers of Louise Candlish, Sarah Vaughan, and Harriet Tyce

The most dangerous person in the courtroom isn't the killer. . .

A childhood spent moving around the world left Revelle Lee with an unusual gift - the ability to fluently speak 11 languages. Now, Revelle spends her days translating for witnesses, victims, and the accused across London crime scenes and courtrooms. It's a stressful job, though not as stressful as the process she is currently going through to adopt little boy, Elliot. She is determined to be the mother to him that she never had, and to make up for her own past mistakes.

But when it seems a murderer will go free, Revelle puts the adoption and her job at risk, deliberately mis-translating the alibi to ensure he is found guilty. No one can ever find out that she interfered or she will lose her son and her livelihood.

The problem is someone already knows what she's done... and they want justice of their own.
  • Published: 8 June 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529904581
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $32.00
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About the author

Brooke Robinson

Brooke Robinson grew up in Sydney and as a playwright, has had numerous plays commissioned and produced in her native Australia. In the UK, her work has been shown at the Old Vic theatre and London's Vault Festival. She studied drama at RADA (The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts) and City, University of London. The Interpreter is her debut novel.

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Praise for The Interpreter

CLEVER, ATMOSPHERIC AND UTTERLY ABSORBING - I LOVED IT

Alice Clark-Platts, author of THE COVE

Brilliantly crafted and deliciously dark, The Interpreter forces us to question how far is too far when it comes to serving justice and protecting our loved ones, and whether the best of intentions can excuse cataclysmic outcomes. A propulsive and heartfelt page-turner

Erica Katz, author of The Boys’ Club and Fake

Compelling and ingenious, this thriller explores the lengths people go to to protect others

Prima

Fresh, exciting and original

Heat

An ingenious premise, cleverly executed, THE INTERPRETER is multi-layered and intriguing, gripping from beginning to end

Sabine Durrant, Sunday Times bestselling author of Lie With Me

Brutally honest about the trauma of adoption, and yet still written with affection about a woman who is desperate for justice, it is no surprise that it has already been bought by Hollywood

Daily Mail

Robinson delivers an intricate debut thriller that plays with the tangled relationship between language, truth and justice in ways that will surprise even veteran crime readers

Sydney Morning Herald

In this stellar debut thriller... Robinson is marvelous at mining the moral murk of Revelle's choices, and chapters from the perspective of her stalker ratchet up the suspense. Minnette Walters fans will be delighted

Publishers Weekly

I raced through it. Brilliant writing, properly tense and a fascinating perspective on criminal trials with an interpreter protagonist

Harriet Tyce

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