Witch Trial: Don't miss the most addictive and shocking new thriller of 2026, an instant Sunday Times bestseller

Two teenage girls. One murdered classmate.

And a modern-day witch trial that will divide the nation.

When 18-year-old Christian Shaw is found dead in an Edinburgh park, the city reels - and the shock only deepens when police charge her best friends, Eliza Lawson and Isobel Smyth, with her murder.

As social media explodes and headlines scream for justice, rumours of bullying spiral into something darker: whispers of rituals, obsession, and a teenage pact gone wrong.

Matthew Phillips, a respected heart surgeon, is reluctantly called for jury duty on the case. But as the trial unfolds - and the girls reveal a chilling defence no one saw coming - he begins to question everything: the motives, the evidence, even his own judgement.

Who's telling the truth? Who can be trusted?

And what really happened to Christian Shaw?

Let the Witch Trial begin . . .

'Mind-bending and brilliant' LISA JEWELL

'Deliciously twisted. . . Genius' CLAIRE DOUGLAS

'An utter masterpiece' SOPHIE HANNAH

'Impeccable plotting' FINANCIAL TIMES

'Daring, different, clever' ANDREA MARA

'Clever and utterly addictive' CLARE LESLIE HALL