The cover of Harriet Tyce’s debut novel, Blood Orange, is alluring and slightly confronting. I would most certainly pick it up if I saw it on a shelf and knew nothing else about the book.

It’s a novel featuring an unreliable narrator and a book that surprised me. I think was expecting more of a legal procedural, but this book is as much about Alison, the Barrister representing a woman accused of murdering her husband, as it is the defendant and the crime in question.