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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Wildfire

ISBN: 9781035411917

RRP: £18.99

PAGES: 400

PUBLICATION DATE:
February 26, 2026

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Witch Trial

By Harriet Tyce

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. 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 . . .

Reviews of Witch Trial

'Mind-bending and brilliant' LISA JEWELL

'Deliciously twisted . . . Genius' CLAIRE DOUGLAS

'Daring, clever and compulsive' ANDREA MARA

'An utter masterpiece' SOPHIE HANNAH

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Harriet Tyce

Harriet Tyce is the million-copy, Sunday Times bestselling author of four novels. She grew up in Edinburgh and studied English at Oxford University before doing a law conversion course at City University. After practising as a criminal barrister in London for nearly a decade, she subsequently completed an MA in Creative Writing – Crime Fiction at the University of East Anglia. Her first novel, Blood Orange, published in 2019 to huge critical acclaim and she has since written multiple Sunday Times bestsellers. Witch Trial is her fifth novel. Harriet lives in North London.