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  • Published: 6 April 2017
  • ISBN: 9781405927369
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download

You Don't Know Me

The gripping courtroom thriller as seen on Netflix




Powerful, gripping and told in a stunning, authentic voice: this is guaranteed to get people talking.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of You Don't Know Me by Imran Mahmood, read by Adam Deacon.

An unnamed defendant is accused of murder. Before the Closing Speeches, the young man sacks his lawyer, and gives his own defence.

His barrister told him to leave some things out. Sometimes, the truth can be too difficult to explain, or believe. But if he's going to go down for life, he wants to tell the truth.

As he talks us through the evidence, his life is in our hands. We, the reader - member of the jury - must listen to his story.

His defence raises many questions. But in the end, only one matters: Did he do it?

  • Published: 6 April 2017
  • ISBN: 9781405927369
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download

About the author

Imran Mahmood

Imran Mahmood is a practicing barrister with almost 30 years' experience fighting cases in court. He hails from Liverpool but now lives in London with his wife and daughters. His debut novel You Don't Know Me was chosen by Simon Mayo as a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice and longlisted for Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and for the CWA Gold Dagger, and has now been adapted into a four part drama series for the BBC. He is also the author of I Know What I Saw. When not in court or writing novels he can sometimes be found on the Red Hot Chilli Writers' podcast as one of the regular contributors.
@imranmahmood777

Praise for You Don't Know Me

You'll never guess the ending

The Sun

You'll never guess the ending

The Sun

An original take on a courtroom drama that puts the reader in the position of the jury. Superb character-driven fiction. Masterful.

Guardian

An original take on a courtroom drama that puts the reader in the position of the jury. Superb character-driven fiction. Masterful.

Guardian

You Don't Know Me is a brave debut by a barrister . . . an impressively original courtroom drama

The Times

You Don't Know Me is a brave debut by a barrister . . . an impressively original courtroom drama

The Times

A dazzling debut - authentic, funny, sad, sympathetic. I was utterly gripped. Rich in understanding of human nature, acerbic on the rights and wrongs of the justice system

Gillian McAllister, Sunday Times bestselling author of Everything But the Truth

A dazzling debut - authentic, funny, sad, sympathetic. I was utterly gripped. Rich in understanding of human nature, acerbic on the rights and wrongs of the justice system

Gillian McAllister, Sunday Times bestselling author of Everything But the Truth

A bold and original courtroom drama, You Don't Know Me heralds the arrival of a thrilling new voice in crime fiction

Tim Weaver, Sunday Times bestselling author of the David Raker series

A bold and original courtroom drama, You Don't Know Me heralds the arrival of a thrilling new voice in crime fiction

Tim Weaver, Sunday Times bestselling author of the David Raker series

A must read for fans of Making a Murderer, Serial and those who like their crime fiction... edgy and provocative

Book Riot

A must read for fans of Making a Murderer, Serial and those who like their crime fiction... edgy and provocative

Book Riot

The defendant's narrative is beguiling, philosophical, vulnerable

Sunday Express

The defendant's narrative is beguiling, philosophical, vulnerable

Sunday Express

A startlingly original debut from a criminal defence barrister, this story grabs from the very first sentence... utterly compelling throughout ... it is a stunning idea superbly executed

Daily Mail

A startlingly original debut from a criminal defence barrister, this story grabs from the very first sentence... utterly compelling throughout ... it is a stunning idea superbly executed

Daily Mail

[A] riveting debut ... the defendant's narrative voice is so beguiling - eloquent, cocky, philosophical and vulnerable

Jake Kerridge, Daily Express

[A] riveting debut ... the defendant's narrative voice is so beguiling - eloquent, cocky, philosophical and vulnerable

Jake Kerridge, Daily Express

This is an exciting first novel. To start with, it is highly original; what's more, it is cleverly plotted and convincingly written in a voice obviously not the author's own ... I was left admiring this novel.

Literary Review

This is an exciting first novel. To start with, it is highly original; what's more, it is cleverly plotted and convincingly written in a voice obviously not the author's own ... I was left admiring this novel.

Literary Review

The best psychological thrillers that should find a place on your reading list this summer

Fabulous Magazine Daily (The Sun)

The best psychological thrillers that should find a place on your reading list this summer

Fabulous Magazine Daily (The Sun)

A daring concept executed to perfection, a hypnotic and authentic voice, and questions for us to answer as readers and people

Lee Child

A daring concept executed to perfection, a hypnotic and authentic voice, and questions for us to answer as readers and people

Lee Child

A bold and original courtroom drama, You Don't Know Me heralds the arrival of a thrilling new voice in crime fiction

Tim Weaver, Sunday Times bestselling author of the David Raker series

A bold and original courtroom drama, You Don't Know Me heralds the arrival of a thrilling new voice in crime fiction

Tim Weaver, Sunday Times bestselling author of the David Raker series

An eye-opening, slick and compulsive thriller with an important message and unique writing

Adam Deacon, actor, writer, rapper, director, star of, Kidulthood and Adulthood

A dazzling debut - authentic, funny, sad, sympathetic. I was utterly gripped. Rich in understanding of human nature, acerbic on the rights and wrongs of the justice system

Gillian McAllister, Sunday Times bestselling author of Everything But the Truth

An eye-opening, slick and compulsive thriller with an important message and unique writing

Adam Deacon, actor, writer, rapper, director, star of, Kidulthood and Adulthood

It's the voice that does it: edgy, conflicted, desperately urgent. A startlingly confident and deft debut

Tana French

You've never read anything quite like this

Barry Forshaw, Financial Times

It's the voice that does it: edgy, conflicted, desperately urgent. A startlingly confident and deft debut

Tana French

You've never read anything quite like this

Barry Forshaw, Financial Times

A startlingly original courtroom drama . . . perfectly executed, gripping the reader from the first sentence with the defendant's unique voice and not letting go until a surprising twist at the end. Mahmood is most definitely one to watch * * * * *

Daily Express

A searing, heart-breaking, genre-bending crime novel that triumphantly reconfigures the traditional whodunnit into something remarkable

RUTH WARE

A startlingly original courtroom drama . . . perfectly executed, gripping the reader from the first sentence with the defendant's unique voice and not letting go until a surprising twist at the end. Mahmood is most definitely one to watch * * * * *

Daily Express

A searing, heart-breaking, genre-bending crime novel that triumphantly reconfigures the traditional whodunnit into something remarkable

RUTH WARE

Timely, tense and original . . . Written with gritty authenticity, this is compelling and important

Heat

Timely, tense and original... Written with gritty authenticity, this is compelling and important

Heat

Timely, tense and original . . . Written with gritty authenticity, this is compelling and important

Heat

Timely, tense and original... Written with gritty authenticity, this is compelling and important

Heat