False Witness, Phillip Margolin
False Witness, Phillip Margolin
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False Witness
A Novel

Author: Phillip Margolin

Narrator: Thérèse Plummer

Unabridged: 6 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/11/2025


Synopsis

A lawyer who was set up, imprisoned, and disbarred, only to be vindicated and reinstated, is determined to find out who set her up and cover their tracks with a trail of dead bodies. This program is read by Thérèse Plummer, winner of multiple Audie and Earphone awards.

Defense Attorney Karen Wyatt exposed corruption in the police force and the district attorney's office while getting her client exonerated in court. But in doing so, she put a target on her back and she was set up on a fake drug charge, imprisoned and disbarred until the conspiracy unraveled and her innocence was proven. Now reinstated to the bar, Wyatt is still interested in finding out who ordered her to be framed, but the key figures were either killed or are in witness protection.

In the meantime, Wyatt is a practicing defense attorney, whose current client is either guilty of a heinous murder or is a too-trusting patsy for a crime he didn't commit. It will take all of Wyatt's genius to defend her client successfully—but that's just one piece of an increasingly complex puzzle.

With a deadly criminal drug gang, a powerful, corrupt figure hiding in the D.A.'s office, and a congressman who turned up with an unbelievable story after disappearing for days, False Witness is a twisty, breathtaking, unpredictable thriller.

"...a gripping audiobook read flawlessly by Thérèse Plummer. Plummer's ability to enhance author Phillip Margolin's characters and dialogue keeps the listener focused from start to finish." —AudioFile on Murder at Black Oaks (Earphones Award winner)

JT - "[Thérèse] Plummer voices a wide range of multidimensional characters and infuses each one with nuanced distinctions and unique identifiers. Listeners will be hooked!" —AudioFile on A Matter of Life and Death

A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books

About Phillip Margolin

PHILLIP MARGOLIN has written over twenty-five novels, most of them New York Times bestsellers, including Gone But Not Forgotten, Lost Lake, and Violent Crimes. In addition to being a novelist, he was a long time criminal defense attorney with decades of trial experience, including a large number of capital cases. Margolin lives in Portland, Oregon.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Marta on October 08, 2025

4-5/10: 2⭐️’s I wanted to like this book so much more than I did. It had the potential for a great detective and courtroom procedural and thriller. However, there was way too many characters to keep track of. I found myself going back and looking for character names to remind myself of who was who a......more

Goodreads review by Mallory on October 29, 2025

This is my first book by this author and I enjoyed it. I thought the story was a little busy (there were a lot of subplots) but it was overall enjoyable. I really liked the over arching storyline of a defense attorney who was set up and sent to prison for a year before she was freed. The other plots......more

Goodreads review by Louise on November 08, 2025

(2.75 stars) Thank you to Minotaur Books and Macmillan Audio for the opportunity to read and listen to an advance copy of False Witness. I’ve wanted to try a book by Phillip Margolin for a while and when I saw that False Witness was a standalone novel, I figured it would be a great way to try this pro......more

Goodreads review by Jayne on October 23, 2025

Although I am a huge fan of author Phillip Margolin and narrator Thérèse Plummer, I was not the right listener for this audiobook. WHY? I despise bloat. While the book's premise was stellar —a vindicated, disbarred defense attorney seeking revenge and getting dragged into a complex murder case—......more

Goodreads review by Bob on November 11, 2025

Fair, At Best! Thirty-two years ago, after finished an advance reader copy of Margolin’s Gone, But Not Forgotten, and then followed by two of his other excellent legal thrillers (After Dark and Long Lake), Margolin quickly became one of my favorite authors. Over the last three decades I read a number......more


Quotes

"A breath of fresh air: an exciting new lead character, a strong mystery full of false leads and abrupt shifts in direction, and plenty of suspense." —Booklist

"
Margolin’s latest hits on all cylinders, continuing his string of thoughtfully mesmerizing courtroom thrillers. The verdict is in, and False Witness is a winner." —BookTrib

"Margolin once again has proven his expertise when it comes to the law and the courtroom. He has penned yet another legal thriller that satisfies on many levels." —Bookreporter