Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce

An ambitious London criminal barrister, mired in alcoholism and a reckless affair, is handed her first murder case defending a woman who admits to killing her abusive husband; as she prepares the defense, the client’s story begins to mirror the coercion, surveillance, and violence creeping through her own marriage. What starts as a career-making opportunity spirals into a tangle of manipulation, gaslighting, and betrayal at home and at chambers, forcing her to confront uncomfortable truths about power and complicity, and building toward a brutal, life-altering reckoning.