The Interpreter - GlaucaWyrm

Paperback, 320 pages

English language

Published Sept. 19, 2021 by Harper Paperbacks.

ISBN:: 9780063299887

(1 review)

Innocent or guilty. It's all a matter of interpretation...

A childhood spent moving around the world left Revelle Lee with an unusual gift - the ability to fluently speak 11 languages. Now, Revelle spends her days translating for witnesses, victims, and the accused across London crime scenes and courtrooms. It's a stressful job, though not as stressful as the process she is currently going through to adopt little boy, Elliot. She is determined to be the mother to him that she never had, and to make up for her own past mistakes.

But when it seems a murderer will go free, Revelle puts the adoption and her job at risk, deliberately mistranslating the alibi to ensure he is found guilty. No one can ever find out that she interfered or she will lose her son and her livelihood.

The problem is someone already knows what she's done... and they want …

Innocent or guilty. It's all a matter of interpretation...

A childhood spent moving around the world left Revelle Lee with an unusual gift - the ability to fluently speak 11 languages. Now, Revelle spends her days translating for witnesses, victims, and the accused across London crime scenes and courtrooms. It's a stressful job, though not as stressful as the process she is currently going through to adopt little boy, Elliot. She is determined to be the mother to him that she never had, and to make up for her own past mistakes.

But when it seems a murderer will go free, Revelle puts the adoption and her job at risk, deliberately mistranslating the alibi to ensure he is found guilty. No one can ever find out that she interfered or she will lose her son and her livelihood.

The problem is someone already knows what she's done... and they want justice of their own.

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Annie the Book reviewed The Interpreter by Brooke Robinson

The Interpreter, by Brooke Robinson

3 stars

Revelle Lee is full of secrets. She never talks about her past. She never talks about why she’s so desperate to adopt a child. She doesn’t even talk about one of the languages she speaks and refuses to interpret for child protective services. It takes most of The Interpreter, by Brooke Robinson, for Revelle’s secrets to shake out. It will also take stalking, blackmail, and a lot of paranoia to loose those secrets...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type.