Strikingly written... what makes The Diary of Lies so engrossing is the author’s accomplished prose, which evokes a dark and dangerous world

Miller’s outstanding third case for reporter Shona Sandison effortlessly braids together three interconnected story lines... Miller doesn’t rush things, allowing the disparate strands of his sophisticated narrative to come together slowly, and he enriches the proceedings with striking prose and lovable characters

This is the third installment in Miller’s excellent series featuring Shona Sandison, an investigative journalist whose specialty is uncovering perfidy in high places. Admirers of Mick Herron’s “Slow Horses” series will appreciate the similarly jaundiced tone

Philip Miller does it again. Beautifully written, complex and gripping from start to finish, The Diary of Lies is a dark and brutal tale that holds a mirror up to our troubled times

Captures the sense of fatigue and powerlessness that pervades the country and underlines how much we need the decency and tenacity of the Shona Sandisons, who can still triumph against all the odds

Miller’s greatest gift is to get you to care about his characters long before you’ve figured out what they’re looking for

Deeply scary and all too believable

A top secret, sinister government project, an elderly spy chief out to avenge his murdered son and a treacherous plot within the UK’s most powerful institutions come together in this explosive read

Miller writes with such confidence and flair... this is a novel that holds the attention, offers much rich entertainment and has splendidly atmospheric and even comic scenes

A gripping page-turner where the reader never stops rooting for Sandison to expose the evil she finds at the heart of government and industry, and survive

A suspenseful, page-turning thriller

a gripping book

a riveting cloak-and-dagger thriller

dark and apocalyptic