Lies She Told

by Cate Holahan · 2017

Liza Cole, a once‑celebrated novelist, is given thirty days to pen a thriller that could restore her fading fame. As she wrestles with a stalled pregnancy and a husband preoccupied by the mysterious disappearance of his best friend Nick, Liza retreats into the mind of her new heroine, Beth. Beth, a new mother convinced her husband is cheating, plots a violent revenge that ends with a body dumped in the East River. When the same river yields Nick’s corpse and Liza’s husband is arrested for murder, the boundaries between Liza’s fiction and her own life begin to dissolve. Racing against her deadline, Liza must confront the hidden truths of those around her—and the darkness within herself—before the story she’s writing consumes her reality.