No Further Questions - Gillian McAllister

Description

The police say she's guilty.

She insists she's innocent.

She's your sister.

You loved her.

You trusted her.

But they say she killed your child.

Who do you believe?

Review

I was a little torn when I began this book as I hadn't realised the child that had been killed was a baby. I wasn't sure I wanted to read it - but I have read her two previous books and really wanted to see what this book was like.

Most of the book is a court room scene and I'm not sure if that is why it took me a while to get into it. It also seemed to be an open and shut case and I found it hard to get interested for the first few chapters. Mainly because it was such an emotive read. Two sisters on opposing sides and a dead baby.

As the witnesses were introduced the author also gave a little back story as to how they had seen the evidence from their point of view. This really was great observational writing and gave life to each of the characters, even though some of them only had a few pages in the book.

Slowly as more and more of the back story was revealed I began to think I knew what had happened, or did I? This was really when the book hooked me in and I had to know, but would we ever know - was the dilemma in my head. Keen to get to the end I took the book onto public transport and that was a bit of a mistake. I managed to hold it together, but some of the writing really got to me and I was holding back a few tears.

It's a book that in places was not an easy read. That doesn't detract from the author's talent in conveying so many emotions within the pages, whilst taking the reader into a court room they would rather not be in.

I'm giving this book 5 out of 5 stars and my thanks go to Netgalley for an advance copy of the book.

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