Little Black Lies'A dark and haunting thriller. It creeps under your skin and doesn't let you go' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train What's the worst thing your best friend could do to you? Admittedly, it wasn't murder. A moment's carelessness, a tragic accident and two children are dead. Yours. Living in a small island community, you can't escape the woman who destroyed your life. Each chance encounter is an agonizing reminder of what you've lost your

a demon intent on revenge and a suicidal deep-frozen ancestor and you have a recipe that could only be cooked up in a Gliori-cauldron

seeking prophecies of a better future

She wants his help in tracing the history of The Mysterious Bird of Ulieta

old secrets come falling out

listening to a bit of light jazz

a note is passed to the prosecution offering information on the assassination of a disgraced former governor of New York

But Harry is gone: struck off the force

Until they meet Jess Rawlins

Harry is kept indoors at all costs

to creep up behind him and blow him along the pavement

is found beaten to death in a seedy boarding house

where one side tells a very different story from the other