""In this stellar debut thriller from playwright Robinson, London-based interpreter Revelle Lee considers the consequences of sabotaging a murder investigation."" âPublishers Weekly, starred review
With the taut psychological drama of The Silent Patient and the propulsive storytelling of The Club, a chilling debut thriller about a London-based interpreter with dark secretsâand the enemy determined to take her down.
Innocent or guilty: it all hinges on a single word . . .
Thanks to a nomadic childhood, Revelle Lee is fluent in ten languages, which she puts to use at crime scenes and in courtrooms across London. Being a court interpreter is a stressful job, one that makes her privy to the most personal and often dark details of othersâ lives.
In the meantime, sheâs close to adopting a six-year-old boy named Elliot from foster care. Revelle is determined to be the mother she never had, and to make up for a terrible mistake she made years ago. Though the sweet, loving little boy is learning to trust her, sheâs begun receiving disturbing messages which she suspects are from his birth family.
When one of her cases involves a murder victim she knew slightly, Revelle fears sheâs seeing a miscarriage of justice play out. Putting both the adoption and her career at risk, she deliberately mistranslates a Polish manâs alibi to put his accused friend behind bars, even though he insists heâs innocent.
Revelle thinks sheâs gotten away with it free and clear. But someone seems to know what sheâs doneâand about her long-ago error and its terrible consequences. And they intend to destroy Revelleâs life, piece by piece. . .