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NOVEL - BELIEVING THE LIE
Barbara Havers, Deborah St. James, and of course, Inspector Lynley,
return in Believing the Lie.
Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover
to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the
man's uncle, the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough. The
death has been ruled an accidental drowning, and nothing on the
surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his
friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio's digging soon reveals
that the Fairclough clan is awash in secrets, lies, and motives.
Deborah's investigation of the prime suspect—Bernard's prodigal
son Nicholas, a recovering drug addict—leads her to Nicholas's wife,
a woman with whom she feels a kinship, a woman as fiercely
protective as she is beautiful. Lynley and Simon delve for
information from the rest of the family, including the victim's
bitter ex-wife and the man he left her for, and Bernard himself. As
the investigation escalates, the Fairclough family's veneer cracks,
with deception and self-delusion threatening to destroy everyone
from the Fairclough patriarch to Tim, the troubled son Ian left
behind.
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