The Truth Behind the Lie

The Truth Behind the Lie

by Sara Lövestam

Saw your ad. Need your help right away to find my little girl who disappeared last Monday, near the Globe Arena Center. Can’t call the police. Will pay well.

Kouplan—an Iranian refugee in Stockholm—has no credentials as a PI, but is an expert in living under the radar. Pernilla is desperate but has her own reasons for not contacting the authorities.

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Under the Cold Bright Lights
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Under the Cold Bright Lights

by Garry Disher

Alan Auhl, Melbourne cold-case investigator, finds himself juggling several cases at once: a skeleton found under a cement slab, a doctor whose first two wives died mysteriously and now says his third wife is trying to kill him, and two sisters who insist their father’s death was murder, not accident. And Auhl’s home life is complicated too…

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The Nanny
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The Nanny

by Gilly Macmillan

Sometimes the truth hurts so much, you'd rather hear the lie.

Jocelyn, age seven, is devastated when her beloved nanny vanishes overnight. She’s sure her parents are to blame. Thirty years later Jocelyn (now Jo) is forced by circumstances to return to her childhood home at Lake Hall, even though it means living with her estranged mother. Then a skeleton is found submerged in the lake. . .

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Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives
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Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives

Edited by Sarah Weinman

This collection presents “an entire generation of female crime writers who have faded from view.”

First published between the early 1940s and the mid-1970s, these fourteen stories—passionate, suspenseful and even terrifying—present a group of authors who laid the groundwork for what’s now called domestic suspense.

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Behind Every Lie
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Behind Every Lie

By Christina McDonald

If you can’t remember it, how do you prove you didn’t do it?

Eva’s in hospital. She was struck by lightning and has lost her memory. Her mother’s been murdered, and Eva can’t remember what happened after they had dinner the night before. And the police suspect her…

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