Between the Lies

Louise Tickle

Summary

When it comes to families, is anyone a reliable witness?
 
Cherry Magraw can never forget the date her mother and brother were killed –  the night of her ninth birthday.  When her father was jailed for their murders, she lost everyone she loved.
 
Twenty years later, Cherry is a freelance journalist investigating domestic abuse and the secret world of the family courts, when she gets a letter from her father – still in prison for the killings – which contains a startling request.
 
From that point on, her past becomes entangled with her work, dismantling everything Cherry thought she knew about her family tragedy and plunging her into a dangerous of game of cat and mouse. Will her history cloud her judgement about another desperate family? And how far will she go to save someone else’s children?

Available since: 10/19/2023.

Print length: 350 pages.

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