From the writer of The Widower’s Wife, a Kirkus Reviews best publication of the entire year, comes an electrifying story of love and deceitSometimes the simple truth is darker than fiction.Liza Cole has thirty days to create the thriller that could place her back around the bestseller list. For the time being, she’s struggling to start out a family with her hubby, who is distracted by the disappearance of his best friend, Nick. With tensions weighing her down in both her professional and her personal lives, Liza escapes into about Lies She Told writing her latest heroine, Beth.Beth is a new mom who suspects her spouse is cheating on her while she’s house alone looking after their newborn. Angry and betrayed, she sets out to capture him in the action and make him pay for shattering the illusion of their ideal lifestyle. But before she realizes it, she’s tossing your body of her husband’s mistress in to the East River.Then your lines between fiction and reality start to blur. Nick’s person is dragged through the same river and Liza’s spouse is imprisoned for his murder. Before her deadline is normally up, Liza must confront the truths about the people around her, including herself. If she doesn’t, the finish of her heroine’s tale could be the end of her own.