""A spellbinding book about a missing child, and about the life of a writer. Bold, suspenseful, and impossible to put down. This one will stay with me for a long time."" â Samantha Downing, #1 internationally bestselling author of My Lovely Wife
The acclaimed author of The Nanny and What She Knewâhailed by stalwarts including Ruth Ware, Liane Moriarty, Rosamund Lupton, Tess Gerritsen, and Shari Lapenaâreturns with another serpentine thriller that cleverly blends atmosphere, tarnished memories, mystery, and twisty secrets from the past into a potent, intense read that will leave you questioning everything you believe.
To tell you the truth . . . everybody lies.
Lucy Harperâs talent for writing bestselling novels has given her fame, fortune and millions of fans. Itâs also given her Dan, her needy, jealous husband whose own writing career has gone precisely nowhere.
Now Dan has vanished. But this isnât the first time that someone has disappeared from Lucyâs life. Three decades ago, her little brother Teddy also went missing and was never found. Lucy, the only witness, helplessly spun fantasy after fantasy about Teddyâs disappearance, to the detectivesâ fury and her parentsâ despair. That was the start of her ability to tell a storyâa talent she has profited from greatly.
But now Lucyâs a grown woman who canât hide behind fiction any longer. The world is watching, and her whole life is under intense scrutiny. A life full of stories, some more believable than others. Could she have hurt Teddy? Did she kill Dan? Finally, now, Lucy Harperâs going to tell the truth.
Cross her heart.
And hope to die.
âOne of the most unsettlingâand unforgettableâheroines Iâve ever met.â â Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door