Nilufer Ozmekik's Reviews > False Witness

Well, well, well! One of the darkest queens of mind blowing, shocking, twisty crime thriller novels returns back with another dark story shakes you to the core and gives you stomach churning anxiety with the broken characters she’s developed ripping our hearts apart!

Screaming, crying and hyperventilating are my regular actions each time I’m reading another Karin Slaughter novel.

This one gives me the same depressing, anxious, sad feelings as well. I think this book may be the one of the saddest stories she’s ever created!

Self destructive, flawed characters who are victims of self flagellation break your hearts and you feel so useless and helpless when you read their heart wrenching stories.

This book’s story centered on two sisters who forgot the meaning of being siblings. They have mandatory, intense bond they cannot deny but they are estranged, learning to have limited connection, living different lives. Only thing bounding them is a tragedy: a thing they’ve done in the past. But now the demons of their past come back to threaten them. You know what favorite quote says: three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.

Callie and Leigh are sisters, raised in poverty by the year of the mother who were abusive and neglectful from the beginning. They are connected by a crime they committed when they were teenagers. Could we blame them after being witnessed their dealt shitty hand and the obstacles they had to endure when they were only two children. Yes, it’s not fair to blame them! They did what they had to do for surviving!

And they did! They survived but did they have a fulfilled life? Didn’t they let the guilt feeling gnaw inside of them and make them suffer for years? Yes, they did! Both of them the queens of self destruction!

Leigh seems like having a decent life: a successful career, a kid, a civilized divorce! Well, nothing as it seems because tantrums her teenage daughter throws are too hard to handle and didn’t I mention her marriage ended! I don’t care it was civilized ending or not! She’s alone now! And mansplaining at the work place is frustrating. She deserves a promotion.

One day, she assigned to represent a man who is accused for rape. The man’s name is Andrew Tenant and he insists he knows her. Actually he knows old her! He knows what she and her sister have involved in.

This means she needs to reconnect with her sister to prevent the truth’s coming out! But dear Callie is not at her best. Actually she’s at her worst! She’s heroine addict, doing whatever she can to keep herself alive till getting her next fix! Her addiction is the main reason of their estrangement but now they need to be reunited to confront to their past demons to keep move forward! But it’s obvious it is easier said than done.

If you already in dark, grumpy mood, I don’t recommend you to read this!

Slaughter’s choice to add COVID-19’s effects, daily restrictions in our lives at this book was disturbing but I have to admit it brought realistic tone to the story!

Overall: it’s definitely must read for all time favorite authors of the author! It’s wild, the intense graphic violence disturbs your mental state! The characters were easy to resonate and you truly feel so sorry for them!

If you repeat yourself this is only disturbing fiction novel with so many realistic facts, you can keep your emotions intact without getting too much hurt!

I’m giving my well developed characters, haunted story, a heart pounding page turner four stars! Looking forward to read the next book of the author! Crossing my fingers to read a new Will Trent book in near future!