Conviction

A breathtaking thriller about a wealthy housewife who successfully conceals her dark past until a true-crime podcast and a photo posted on social media send her running across Europe, with a faded rock star by her side and extremely dangerous enemies on her trail. Anna McLean loves to revel in lifes unsavory details. When shes keeping up appearances as an upper-class Edinburgh housewife, theres no better escape than other peoples sordid stories retold in true-crime podcasts. Until the day it all falls apart. A new podcast turns out to have a connection to Annas own dark past—the secret history shes taken great pains to conceal. Hours later, her husband announces hes leaving her—for her own best friend. And when the best friends husband—who happens to be former rock star Fin Cohen—shows up on Annas front stoop, a nosy neighbor plasters their photo all over the internet. Her cover well and truly blown, Annas only choice is to run—and take Fin along for his own protection. Reigning queen of Scottish crime fiction Denise Mina deftly weaves the classic thriller elements of a woman with a secret past, an average citizen thrust into a high-stakes international chase, and a cheating spouse, with online life—internet sleuthing, true-crime podcasts, insta-celebrities, and Twitter—to craft a modern, propulsive page-turner like nothing youve read before. A Library Journal Editors Pick for Spring.