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Karin Slaughter, author of False Witness

Leigh Collier is an up-and-coming defense attorney and is managing to successfully coparent through a pandemic. But her ordinary life masks a childhood no one should have to endure. On a Sunday night at her daughter’s school play, she gets a call from one of the firm's partners who wants Leigh to come on board to defend a wealthy man accused of multiple counts of rape. When she meets the accused face-to-face, she realizes it’s no coincidence that he’s specifically asked for her to represent him. He may know what happened over 20 years ago, and why Leigh has spent two decades avoiding her past. The only person who can help is her younger, estranged sister Callie --- the last person Leigh would ever want to drag into this after all they’ve been through.

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Week of April 18, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of April 18th include THE PAPER PALACE by Miranda Cowley Heller, a story of summer, secrets, love and lies, in which one woman --- over the course of a singular day on Cape Cod --- must make a life-changing decision that has been brewing for decades; FALSE WITNESS, a stand-alone thriller from Karin Slaughter that introduces readers to an up-and-coming defense attorney who has worked hard to put her nightmarish childhood behind her --- but now her devastating past is starting to catch up to her, and time is running out; Nancy Thayer's FAMILY REUNION, a magicial, multigenerational novel about a longtime Nantucket resident who is trying to make the best of a lonely summer, and her spirited granddaughter who is learning what she wants out of life; and Rachel Cusk's electrifying novel, SECOND PLACE, a study of female fate and male privilege, the geometries of human relationships, and the moral questions that animate our lives.

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