The tension levels and suspense are high, particularly in the book's final quarter when the lives of characters I didn't want anything to happen to were in danger. I thought I had a good idea of what to expect from this suspenseful thriller but the author teased me with twists that surprised me. Because someone Bree loves is targeted as the next to die.Ī fast-paced mystery that kept me guessing.
Everyone they interview seems to be lying or hiding something.Īs the list of suspects grows, the killer’s rage escalates, and he leaves a personal and deadly warning for Bree. But Bree and Matt aren’t convinced the motive is as simple as it appears. In their wake, they leave a trail of hurt-and angry-women. Their investigation focuses on the man’s dating-app profile and the word liar carved into his forehead.īoth victims are players in the internet dating scene. When a digital marketer is found murdered in his backyard-hands bound and face smothered by plastic wrap-Sheriff Bree Taggert and criminal investigator Matt Flynn respond to the call. (Jan.Lies from the heart lead to a dangerously intimate case for Sheriff Bree Taggert in #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s novel of revenge and fatal deceptions. Agent: Jill Marsal, Marsal Lyon Literary. Fans of contemporary police procedurals will be satisfied. Tight prose matches the well-drawn protagonists. Scenes from the killer's viewpoint heighten the suspense as Leigh keeps the reader guessing what's going to happen next.
The stakes rise when Bree and Matt realize that there are more victims on the killer's list, including her brother, Adam. With the aid of her boyfriend, police consultant Matt Flynn, Bree eventually identifies a possible suspect. Looking for commonalities between the two victims takes time, something Bree, who's looking after her murdered sister's two children, doesn't have. Soon after LaForge's murder, Julius Northcote is killed in a similar fashion, the word cheater carved into his forehead. The autopsy reveals that the word liar was carved into his forehead. Spencer LaForge lies dead on his patio, zip ties on his wrists and ankles, plastic wrap around his head. Early in Leigh's well-paced sixth Bree Taggert mystery (after 2022's Dead Against Her), former Philadelphia police detective Bree, now the sheriff of New York's Randolph County, is called to a crime scene.
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