The Twelve-Minute Alibi

She lost twelve minutes. The cameras gave them back twice.Criminal barrister Eleanor "Nell" Vale remembers entering her mother's Evidence Room. She remembers three soft tones. Then nothing.Twelve minutes later, Celia Vale is dead.One security recording proves Nell was at the murder scene. Another places her miles away at exactly the same time. Both files have intact histories. Both appear authentic. And blood is drying on Nell's cuff.As four conflicting wills expose a lifetime of manipulation, Nell's brilliant, damaged family turns on itself. Her brother controls the forensic-technology empire that authenticated the impossible footage. Her sister filmed more than she admits. Her youngest brother hid an analogue camera. And someone has planted a digital trail designed to make Nell look like the architect of the crime.To clear her name, Nell must challenge the kind of evidence she once taught juries to trust and confront the people harmed when she trusted it too much. But the missing twelve minutes will not return. If she fills the silence with the story she wants, she may become the most convincing false witness of all.The Twelve-Minute Alibi is a twist-rich British legal and psychological thriller about synthetic evidence, family coercion, and the terrifying difference between a file that has not changed and an event that never happened.