Lie Still: A Novel

By Julia Heaberlin

In the culture of Lisa Unger’s Beautiful Lies and Nancy Pickard’s The odor of Rain and Lightning comes a twisting, riveting novel of transferring belief and shattered lives. Lie Still delves deep into the guts of a plush Southern city, the place gossip is forex and secrets and techniques kill.
 
while Emily web page and her husband movement from big apple to the rich enclave of Clairmont, Texas, she hopes she will be able to ultimately break out her haunted past—and outrun the anonymous stalker who has been taunting her for years. Pregnant along with her first baby, Emily simply desires to commence over. yet as she is drawn right into a nest of secretive Texas women—and into the unnerving corporation in their queen, Caroline Warwick—Emily reveals that attractiveness is a truly risky game.
 
It isn’t lengthy earlier than Caroline mysteriously disappears and Emily is dealing with a rash of nameless threats. Are they associated with the lacking Caroline? Or to Emily’s terrifying come across in collage, years prior? because the darkish fact approximately Caroline emerges, Emily realizes that a few secrets and techniques are very unlikely to hide—and that whoever got here for Caroline is now coming for her.

Praise for Lie Still
 
“In this engrossing novel of suspense . . . [Heaberlin] expertly spins out a story of lies and deceit that might continue the reader guessing.”Publishers Weekly
 
“Heaberlin’s depiction of 1 tight-knit Texas neighborhood is either culturally savvy and politically astute. . . . a gently wrapped package deal of Texas cleaning soap opera, social and political exposé, and well-paced thriller.”Booklist
 
“Heaberlin combines a culturally pertinent suspense tale (the plot revolves round the major character’s struggles with the repercussions of an unreported date rape) with satirical observations approximately Texas’ moneyed suburban elite.”The manhattan Times
 
Lie Still mixes critical dialogue approximately ‘the final frontier in crime’ with a twisty-turny secret plot and a solid of eccentric characters.”Fort worthy Star-Telegram
 
“Reading a ebook through Julia Heaberlin is like listening to your ally inform you a very thorny tale, choked with secrets and techniques and intrigue and human hopes and screw ups. Lie Still is a ebook you need to curl up with for a great lengthy whereas yet, extra vital, Julia Heaberlin is an writer you need to get to know.”—Jenny Milchman
 
“Julia Heaberlin weaves an problematic tapestry of secrets and techniques and suspense, lies and betrayals that saved me analyzing overdue into the evening. Lie Still is a mystery par excellence and a page-turner, true—but it’s additionally a relocating tale of 1 woman’s not likely course towards therapeutic, and another’s lifelong look for redemption. I problem you to go to Claremont, Texas—where not anything is kind of because it turns out and not anyone is sort of who they claim—and depart unchanged.”—Emily Colin
 
“Julia Heaberlin deceives the reader within the such a lot deliciously chilling means in Lie Still: With wonderful prose and sterling personality paintings, she takes us on a deeply felt and beautifully composed thrill journey. Layer after layer of secrets and techniques, longing, and deception is peeled away and we commence to dread the twisted kernel on the middle, by no means guessing what Heaberlin has in shop for us.”—Sophie Littlefield, bestselling writer of Garden of Stones

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