The Diary of Lies
A Shona Sandison Mystery
$34.81
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
30 November 2025
Summary
Shona Sandison might be about to get her biggest scoop yet if she can make it to the end of the investigation alive.
In a darkening, post-COVID world, fearless investigative reporter Shona Sandison is seeking meaning and her next big story. A secret contact inside the government has promised her something huge, but she has no idea of the danger she is in. Meanwhile, her old friend Hector Stricken has taken on a position in communications for a new state agency, where he stumbles acros…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781846976841 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1846976847 |
| Author: | Philip Miller |
| Publisher: | Birlinn General |
| Imprint: | Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 30 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 261g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 19mm |
| Series: | The Shona Sandison Mysteries |
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Critics Review
‘Strikingly written… what makes The Diary of Lies so engrossing is the author’s accomplished prose, which evokes a dark and dangerous world’
– Tom Nolan * Wall Street Journal *‘Miller’s outstanding third case for reporter Shona Sandison effortlessly braids together three interconnected story lines… Miller doesn’t rush things, allowing the disparate strands of his sophisticated narrative to come together slowly, and he enriches the proceedings with striking prose and lovable characters’
* Publishers Weekly *‘This is the third installment in Miller’s excellent series featuring Shona Sandison, an investigative journalist whose specialty is uncovering perfidy in high places. Admirers of Mick Herron’s “Slow Horses” series will appreciate the similarly jaundiced tone’
* New York Times *‘Philip Miller does it again. Beautifully written, complex and gripping from start to finish, The Diary of Lies is a dark and brutal tale that holds a mirror up to our troubled times’
– E. S. Thomson, author of the Jem Flockhart Mysteries‘captures the sense of fatigue and powerlessness that pervades the country and underlines how much we need the decency and tenacity of the Shona Sandisons, who can still triumph against all the odds’
– Alastair Mabbott * The Herald *‘Miller’s greatest gift is to get you to care about his characters long before you’ve figured out what they’re looking for’
* Kirkus Reviews *‘Deeply scary and all too believable’
* BookPage (US) *‘A top secret, sinister government project, an elderly spy chief out to avenge his murdered son and a treacherous plot within the UK’s most powerful institutions come together in this explosive read’
– Sally McDonald * Sunday Post *‘a riveting cloak-and-dagger thriller’
* Gumshoe Review *‘Miller writes with such confidence and flair… this is a novel that holds the attention, offers much rich entertainment and has splendidly atmospheric and even comic scenes’
– Allan Massie * The Scotsman *‘A gripping page-turner where the reader never stops rooting for Sandison to expose the evil she finds at the heart of government and industry, and survive’
– Maureen Stapleton * LoveReading *‘A suspenseful, page-turning thriller’
* Scottish Field *‘a gripping book’
– John Powers * NPR *‘dark and apocalyptic’
* Airmail *About The Author
Philip Miller
Philip Miller lives in Edinburgh. An award-winning journalist for twenty years, he is now a civil servant. His previous novels include The Blue Horse and All the Galaxies, and his poetry has been published online and in print.
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