Two Thirds

Kirkcaldy. A Saturday night in October.

At ten past eight Dawn Rennison phones her sister, as she does every Saturday. They talk about her hair, and a programme about donkeys, and their mother's grave. Then Dawn says, I've decided something. Then she says, that's the car, he's early. Then she says, I'll ring you back.

She never does. In the morning her husband finds her in the garage.

He says she had been low for months. Her sister says he did it. And Detective Inspector Morag Corr, who was certain once before and lost, reads thirteen years of Dawn's diaries over a single weekend, and decides that this time she will say nothing to anybody until every word has been checked.

Procurator Fiscal Depute Niamh Tolmie builds the case. Advocate Depute Hugh Lamont KC takes it to the High Court in Edinburgh. And under Scotland's new rules, fifteen strangers have two verdicts, and need ten of them to agree.

The court will hear their verdict.

You will see their votes.

Two Thirds is the fifth novel in The Fifteen, a Scottish courtroom series that follows one prosecution team through eight cases on either side of the reform of the Scottish jury, and shows the reader the one room no real Scot is ever allowed to describe.

Perfect for readers of Scott Turow, John Grisham, Denise Mina and Anatomy of a Scandal.