About the Book

Paula Daly is widely acclaimed for her masterful plotting and thrilling page-turners. Now she delivers Clear My Name, a page-turning new thriller about an investigator, who in order to free her client, must confront secrets she has struggled a lifetime to hide.

When Carrie was accused of brutally murdering her husband’s lover, she denied it. She denied it again when they found her blood inside his house, again when they put her in front of a jury, and again when they sent her to prison. Now she’s three years into her fifteen-year sentence, gradually losing hope and separated from her pregnant daughter, but she is still maintaining her innocence. Tess is the only paid employee of Innocence UK, a charity that helps clear people wrongfully convicted of crimes, and which accepts Carrie’s case. But can she trust Carrie? Tess is no starry-eyed recent grad—her assumption is that “they’re all lying.”

Meanwhile, Tess is also paired with Avril, a naïve young investigator-in-training, with the hope that by mentoring her, she can eventually double the group’s investigative workload. But Tess unexpectedly bolts when she’s tipped off to a witness that could possibly prove Carrie didn’t commit the crime. While Tess and Avril work the case, re-interviewing witnesses and testing assumptions made at the time of the arrest, the tension ratchets up in both the case and Tess’s personal life.

An innovative spin on the crime novel full of wicked twists readers won’t see coming, Paula Daly’s Clear My Name raises the stakes in a grave miscarriage of justice and proves that even in a cold case, things still run hot.

Praise for Clear My Name:

“[E]xquisite pacing . . . The last quarter of this mystery doesn’t so much as unfold as it explodes; the tension is at a fever pitch and the final revelations are genuinely surprising. With a wonderfully executed mystery and two unreliable narrators, Clear My Name straddles the line between psychological thriller and good old-fashioned whodunit.”—BookPage

“A sixth winner for Daly (after Open Your Eyes) with a timely theme, the incarceration of the wrongly convicted, at its core. Fans of domestic thrillers will find the revelations about families and the lengths that mothers and daughters go to protect one another both disturbing and touching.”—Booklist

“I loved this thriller, Clear My Name by Paula Daly. It features two strong women, one in prison for murder, one working to reinvestigate her case. Add in secrets, lies, and family drama and it’s an immediate page turner.”—Lisa Gardner

“[A] powerful thriller . . . Daly’s fans will welcome this gritty departure from her popular novels of domestic suspense.”—Publishers Weekly

“Gilroy investigates the serpentine twists and turns of the evidence, proving how spectacularly talented Daly is as a weaver of intensely compelling contemporary tales.”—Daily Mail

“Daly’s thrillers are engaging and well plotted; there is a nice mix of investigative process . . . as well as character development.—Kirkus Reviews

“[A] thoughtful, tense novel about women empathizing and identifying with one another—about looking out for each other in a world of violence and oppressors, and finding the strength to do so when things grow especially difficult.”—CrimeReads