The Lying Room: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

In this thrilling standalone through the internationally bestselling author of the Frieda Klein series, a married woman’s affair with her manager spirals right into a dangerous game of chess with the police when she discovers he’s been murdered and she clears the criminal offense scene of all evidence.

One little magic formula between a wedded woman, her lover, and a killer.

It should have already been only a mid-life fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could have weathered. A getaway from two decades of routine about The Laying Area: A Novel relationship to her overworked husband, and from her progressively distant children. But when Neve pays a morning-after trip to her lover, Saul, and discovers him brutally murdered, their pied-à-terre still heady with her perfume, all of the lies she has therefore painstakingly stitched jointly threaten to unravel.

After scrubbing clean every trace of her existence from Saul’s life-and death-Neve believes she can go back to normal, shaken but intact. But she can’t get out of her head the main one tormenting query: 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 concerns, to her door. But with every brand-new lie, every brand-new misdirection to save lots of herself, Neve descends further in to the darkness of her betrayal-and into more risk than she ever truly imagined. Because Hitching isn’t the only person watching Neve. So is a identified killer who’s about to make another terrifying move around in a lethal affair….