She’s not so far gone she doesn’t feel guilty and embarrassed by this, only desperate. Meanwhile, she pilfers undetectable amounts of drugs from the clinic’s stores.
He has early onset dementia and has become a bit vague at times, but Callie keeps him organised and on task.
FALSE WITNESS KARIN TRIAL
Andrew has a plan for that too – he’ll marry Sidney right before the trial starts, thinking she can’t then testify against him.Īnother benevolent personality in the mix is Callie’s boss at the animal clinic, Dr Jerry. Mostly she goes super-goth and is not expected to be an asset at the trial. If Leigh could get herself together, they’d likely reconcile almost at once.Īnother extreme character is Andrew’s fiancée, Sidney – interestingly, another woman with a man’s name. Her demons have caused him to leave taking their daughter with him but they are still close and he is cheerfully accommodating. Leigh, growing up in such a neglectful, even hostile environment, blighted by secrets, has miraculously found a good and compassionate husband.
Here is another woman with problems, one of which is having no understanding of or interest in the idea of mothering – now or 23 years earlier. With difficulty, Leigh locates Callie and deposits her at their mother’s house for safekeeping, a concept you can apply only metaphorically in the case of their mother, Phil. Some of the most poignant parts of the story are her attempts to calibrate the drugs in her system so she can cope with the demands posed by Andrew’s threats. Callie’s difficult, with long-standing substance abuse problems. When Andrew barrels back into Leigh’s life, she and Callie are estranged. This is quite a dilemma for Leigh, who can’t sabotage the defense in any way, certain that Andrew would not hesitate to harm her teenage daughter, her husband, or her. He’s gotten his hands on the rape victim’s college health record, which includes the details of numerous mental health counseling sessions, and insists Leigh use it to tear the woman apart on the witness stand. To Leigh’s dismay, Andrew knows all about it, and he’s not above using emotional blackmail to manipulate her into mounting a vigorous defense for him, even though she’s convinced he’s guilty. Something bad happened back in 1998, involving Callie and Leigh, and they’ve kept the secret ever since. Soon she realises her creepy new client is the grown-up boy from long-ago, when she was his baby-sitter. The demeanour of the defendant, Andrew Tenant, is off-putting, but the founder of the firm has asked her to take on the case and she can’t say no without risking her job.
Leigh works for a prestigious law firm in Atlanta, Georgia, and she’s brought in just days before jury selection begins.
FALSE WITNESS KARIN SERIAL
Then it’s spring 2021, and Callie’s sister Leigh is called on to defend a serial rapist whose crimes are especially brutal. Where is this going?, you may wonder, when Slaughter slaps you in the face with a major surprise… The book begins slowly, back in the summer of 1998, with Callie and Buddy’s uneasy relationship that, for his part, seems to revolve solely around sex, rough sex, and keeping his ten-year-old son from knowing what he’s up to. “The past is never where you think you left it” reads the epigram from Katherine Anne Porter, and it’s perfect for this story. American author Karin Slaughter writes both standalone thrillers and series, and her new one, False Witness is a standalone that offers an engrossing read.
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