Nicci French: The Lying Room (UK 2020)

From the Publisher:
Neve Connolly looks down at a murdered man.
She doesn't call the police.

'You know, it's funny,' Detective Inspector Hitching said. 'Whoever I see, they keep saying, talk to Neve Connolly, she'll know. She's the one people talk to, she's the one people confide in.'

A trusted colleague and friend.
A mother.
A wife.

Neve Connolly is all these things.

She has also made mistakes.
One that is now spiralling out of control.
Bringing those around her into immense danger.

A liar.
A cheat.
A threat.
Neve Connolly is all these things.

Could she be a murderer?

Nicci French: The Lying Room. She says she didn't do it. So why hide the truth? Simon & Schuster, ISBN: 9781471179266 (July, 2020), 417 p., £8.99.

Nicci French: The Lying Room (USA 2019)

From the Publisher:
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

Nicci French: The Lying Room. A Novel. William Morrow, ISBN: 9780062676733 (October, 2019), 417 p., Hardcover $26.99, Trade Paperback $15.99, eBook $13.99.

Nicci French: The Lying Room (UK 2019)

From the Publisher:
Neve Connolly looks down at a murdered man.
She doesn't call the police.

'You know, it's funny,' Detective Inspector Hitching said. 'Whoever I see, they keep saying, talk to Neve Connolly, she'll know. She's the one people talk to, she's the one people confide in.'

A trusted colleague and friend.
A mother.
A wife.
Neve Connolly is all these things.

But now one mistake is spiralling out of control and Neve is bringing those around her into immense danger.

She can't tell the truth. So how far is she prepared to go to protect those she loves? And who does she really know? And who can she trust?

A liar.
A cheat.
A threat.
Neve Connolly is all these things.
Could she be a murderer?

Nicci French: The Lying Room. Simon & Schuster, ISBN: 9781471179235 (October, 2019), 417 p., £14.99.