"Super-suspenseful, this story of atonement and the power of words sees a courtroom interpreter enmeshed in a web of fabrication as she tries to right wrongs from her past."
Featuring a compelling central character whose mistakes, decisions and complicated life will have you dreading what’s coming next, Brooke Robinson’s The Interpreter melds the thrills and spills of courtroom crises with murder, blackmail, family drama, and themes of making amends.
In addition, this fabulous thriller reveals the very real power of words, with protagonist Revelle a court interpreter knowing all too well that one wrong word can mean the difference between guilt and innocence, life and death.
In the process of adopting six-year-old Elliot, Revelle’s professional life as an interpreter often sees her in court, and often the only person who knows what defendants are saying. Of course, she’s not supposed to get emotionally involved, but when she just knows a guilty person is about to get off the hook, or when someone is being framed for something they didn’t do, Revelle realises her power with words has the power to change verdicts.
Revelle’s incredibly risky decisions to see justice done will most likely have you wincing as you fly through the pages, not least when it seems someone knows she’s been deceiving the court, and especially when her newly-adopted son is at risk. With a catastrophic past mistake coming back to bite her, and present-day problems careering out of control, The Interpreter’s killer concept comes to an almighty climax.
| Primary Genre | Political / Legal Thrillers |
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"In this stellar debut thriller from playwright Robinson, London-based interpreter Revelle Lee considers the consequences of sabotaging a murder investigation." --Publishers 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 secrets--and 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 others' lives.
In the meantime, she's 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, she's 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 she's seeing a miscarriage of justice play out. Putting both the adoption and her career at risk, she deliberately mistranslates a Polish man's alibi to put his accused friend behind bars, even though he insists he's innocent.
Revelle thinks she's gotten away with it free and clear. But someone seems to know what she's done--and about her long-ago error and its terrible consequences. And they intend to destroy Revelle's life, piece by piece. . .
The Interpreter features in the following genres: Political / Legal Thrillers, Crime and Mystery, Family Drama, Psychological thriller, Thriller and Suspense, Fiction
The Interpreter is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Interpreter was written by Brooke Robinson and published by Harper Paperbacks an imprint of HarperCollins
The Interpreter has 320 pages
