Book - All the Best Lies

The electrifying third novel from the author of The Vanishing Season, Titan Books announce the publication next month of All the Best Lies by Joanna Schaffhausen...

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FBI agent Reed Markham is haunted by one painful unsolved mystery: who murdered his mother?

Camilla was brutally stabbed to death more than forty years ago while baby Reed lay in his crib mere steps away. The trail went so cold that the Las Vegas Police Department has given up hope of solving the case. But then a shattering family secret changes everything Reed knows about his origins, his murdered mother, and his powerful adoptive father, state senator Angus Markham. Now Reed has to wonder if his mother's killer is uncomfortably close to home. 

Unable to trust his family with the details of his personal investigation, Reed enlists his friend, suspended cop Ellery Hathaway to join his quest in Vegas. Ellery has experience with both troubled families and diabolical murderers, having narrowly escaped from each of them. She's eager to skip town, too, because her own father, who abandoned her years ago, is suddenly desperate to get back in contact. He also has a secret that could change her life forever, if Ellery will let him close enough to hear it. 

Far from home and relying only on each other, Reed and Ellery discover young Camilla had snared the attention of dangerous men, any of whom might have wanted to shut her up for good. They start tracing his twisted family history, knowing the path leads back to a vicious killer— one who has been hiding in plain sight for forty years and isn't about to give up now. 

A nail-biting thriller for fans of The Silent Wife and Before I Go To Sleep, All The Best Lies is a riveting exploration of justice, sacrifice and evil. Schaffhausen has expertly created a psychological page-turner that will hold readers in its deathly embrace until the very end.

Joanna Schaffhausen is a scientific editor who previously worked as an editorial producer for ABC News, where she advised and wrote for programmes such as World News Tonight, Good Morning America and 20/20. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and daughter. She has previously written The Vanishing Season and No Mercy.

All the Best Lies by Joanna Schaffhausen is published by Titan Books on 11th February