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Last Witness: The brand new crime thriller that will keep you up all night
384 pages, Paperback
Published July 31, 2025
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Lucie Whitehouse
17 books394 followersLucie Whitehouse was born in the Cotswolds in 1975 and grew up in Warwickshire. She studied Classics at Oxford University and then began a career in publishing while spending evenings, weekends and holidays working on the book that would eventually become THE HOUSE AT MIDNIGHT.
Having married in 2011, she now divides her time between the UK and Brooklyn, where she lives with her husband. She writes full time and has contributed features to the Times, the Sunday Times, the Independent, Elle and Red Magazine.
Having married in 2011, she now divides her time between the UK and Brooklyn, where she lives with her husband. She writes full time and has contributed features to the Times, the Sunday Times, the Independent, Elle and Red Magazine.
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January 5, 2026
This book follows DCI Robin as she has been put in charge to solve the murder of Ben Renshaw, the book is set in Birmingham (and a resident of Birmingham it was nice to imagine a story unfollowed in my home town).
The murder of Ben is more suspicious as months earlier him and his best friend Theo gave evidence in court to prosecute Alistair Heywood a classmate who raped Molly. During the trial Theo himself was attacked so all evidence pointed to the Heywood’s being the main suspects in Bens murder. As Robin begins to investigate and dig deeper tragedy strikes again as Anne Heywood is found deceased after a fire broke out in her home, Anne being the mother of Alistair.
Robin is now tasked with finding out who murdered Ben, who started the fire in Anne Heywoods home and as the police were unable to determine who was trying to silence the witnesses in the original trial Molly vs Alistair also dig deep into finding out who intimidated the witnesses. Robin doesn’t make any assumptions and doesn’t leave any page unturned as she searches for the truth, the more she looks the more her own conscious is questioned, what would you do for the people you love?
While Robin is in the police her brother (Luke) has ties to white supremacists groups and was caught and arrested in a riot where people got hurt. However we also learn that Robins daughter Lennie was there and actually injured someone but Luke takes the fall, Lennie and Robin both battle the rights and wrongs of the situation, will they be able to live with their decisions.
The book is a good read and was detailed enough to keep me interested however I would say the ending was a bit of a let down, the author had spent time covering the relationship between Robin and Samir(her boss and ex partner) however doesn’t arrived at any conclusion come to the end of the book. Considering the amount of chapters there are (over 50) I would of liked the author to spend a few more chapters on the actual revelation / conclusion of the crimes and not just summarise it in a few sentences.
The murder of Ben is more suspicious as months earlier him and his best friend Theo gave evidence in court to prosecute Alistair Heywood a classmate who raped Molly. During the trial Theo himself was attacked so all evidence pointed to the Heywood’s being the main suspects in Bens murder. As Robin begins to investigate and dig deeper tragedy strikes again as Anne Heywood is found deceased after a fire broke out in her home, Anne being the mother of Alistair.
Robin is now tasked with finding out who murdered Ben, who started the fire in Anne Heywoods home and as the police were unable to determine who was trying to silence the witnesses in the original trial Molly vs Alistair also dig deep into finding out who intimidated the witnesses. Robin doesn’t make any assumptions and doesn’t leave any page unturned as she searches for the truth, the more she looks the more her own conscious is questioned, what would you do for the people you love?
While Robin is in the police her brother (Luke) has ties to white supremacists groups and was caught and arrested in a riot where people got hurt. However we also learn that Robins daughter Lennie was there and actually injured someone but Luke takes the fall, Lennie and Robin both battle the rights and wrongs of the situation, will they be able to live with their decisions.
The book is a good read and was detailed enough to keep me interested however I would say the ending was a bit of a let down, the author had spent time covering the relationship between Robin and Samir(her boss and ex partner) however doesn’t arrived at any conclusion come to the end of the book. Considering the amount of chapters there are (over 50) I would of liked the author to spend a few more chapters on the actual revelation / conclusion of the crimes and not just summarise it in a few sentences.
August 27, 2025
4.5 stars
Love a good police procedural and this did not disappoint.
3rd in the series and I still wasn’t sure how all the threads were going to come together.
The theme seems to be
Should you do the wrong thing for the right reason🤔
Love a good police procedural and this did not disappoint.
3rd in the series and I still wasn’t sure how all the threads were going to come together.
The theme seems to be
Should you do the wrong thing for the right reason🤔
December 22, 2025
Unfortunately not a book I could get into whatsoever
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