The Lying Room
Books | Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological
3.4
Nicci French
One little secret between a married woman, her lover, and a killer.In this thrilling standalone from the internationally bestselling author of the Frieda Klein series, a married woman’s affair with her boss spirals into a dangerous game of chess with the police when she discovers he’s been murdered and she clears the crime scene of all evidence.It should have been just a mid-life fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could have weathered. An escape from twenty years of routine marriage to her overworked husband, and from her increasingly distant children. But when Neve pays a morning-after visit to her lover, Saul, and finds him brutally murdered, their pied-à-terre still heady with her perfume, all the lies she has so painstakingly stitched together threaten to unravel.After scrubbing clean every trace of her existence from Saul’s life—and death—Neve believes she can return to normal, shaken but intact. But she can’t get out of her head the one tormenting question: what was she forgetting?An investigation into the slaying could provide the answer. It’s brought Detective Chief Inspector Alastair Hitching, and Neve’s worst fears, to her door. But with every new lie, every new misdirection to save herself, Neve descends further into the darkness of her betrayal—and into more danger than she ever imagined. Because Hitching isn’t the only one watching Neve. So is a determined killer who’s about to make the next terrifying move in a deadly affair….
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Author
Nicci French
Pages
432
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published Date
2019-10-01
ISBN
0062676741 9780062676740
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"I was lucky enough to win a print copy of this title from Goodreads and I'm so glad I did! This was a new author to me but I found myself immediately invested in the storyline and characters. Constantly leaving me on edge and twisting this incredible story in ways I never saw coming!<br/><br/>Neve has been hiding a huge secret and when she stumbles upon her dead lover's body she is forced to make some quick decisions. Call for help and report the grisly murder or protect her lie and try to make it seem as though their relationship never existed. While I personally feel that Neve made a ton of mistakes and bad decisions, every move from here on out must be calculated and analyzed in order to save herself ad her family. <br/><br/>This book was a fabulous ride and I would highly recommend it to any thriller lovers!"