With this thrilling standalone from your internationally bestselling author of the Frieda Klein series, a married woman’s affair with her boss spirals right into a dangerous game of chess with the police when she discovers he’s been murdered and she clears the crime scene of most evidence.

One little top secret between a wedded woman, her lover, and a killer.

It should have been only a mid-life fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could have weathered. An escape from twenty years of regular about The Lying Area: A Novel relationship to her overworked hubby, and from her increasingly distant children. However when Neve pays a morning-after visit to her fan, Saul, and finds him brutally murdered, their pied-à-terre still heady with her perfume, all the lies she has so painstakingly stitched collectively threaten to unravel.

After scrubbing clean every trace of her existence from Saul’s life-and death-Neve believes she can return to normal, shaken but intact. But she can’t escape her head the main one tormenting query: what was she forgetting?

An investigation in to the slaying could supply the answer. It’s brought Detective Chief Inspector Alastair Hitching, and Neve’s most severe fears, to her door. But with every new lie, every brand-new misdirection to save herself, Neve descends further into the darkness of her betrayal-and into even more danger than she ever truly imagined. Because Hitching isn’t the only one watching Neve. So is a identified killer who’s going to make the next terrifying move in a lethal affair….