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A true-crime podcast sets a trophy wife’s present life on the collision program with her key history in the ‘blazingly intense, exciting as all hell’ (A. J. Finn) brand-new thriller from Denise Mina.

The day Anna McDonald’s quiet, respectable life exploded began like all the times before: Packing up the youngsters for school, producing breakfast, listening to another true crime podcast. Then her husband comes downstairs with an announcement, and Anna about Conviction is certainly suddenly, shockingly only.

Reeling, desperate for distraction, Anna results to the podcast. Other people’s problems are much better than one’s personal — a sunken yacht, a murdered family members, a hint of international conspiracy. But this case happens to be Anna’s problem. She knows one of the victims from a youthful life, a life she’s taken great pains to keep behind. And she is convinced that she knows what really happened.

Then an unexpected visitor arrives on her behalf front stoop, a meddling neighbor intervenes, and life simply because Anna knows it really is well and truly more than. The devils of her past are awakened — and in sizzling pursuit. Convinced she has no other available choices, she continues on the run, and in search of the truth, having a washed-up musician at her part and the podcast as her guideline.

‘Daredevil storytelling at its finest…Offers storyline twists and zig-zags that take visitors on a crazy trip…A giddy special event of the artwork of storytelling itself.’ –NPR’s Fresh Air