Everyone Lies
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
In Everyone Lies by AD Garrett, DCI Kate Simms is on the fast track to nowhere. Five years ago she helped a colleague when she shouldn't have. She's been clawing her way back from a demotion ever since. Professor Nick Fennimore is a failed genetics student, successful gambler, betting agent, crime scene officer, chemistry graduate, toxicology specialist and one-time scientific advisor to the National Crime Faculty. He is the best there is, but ever since his wife and daughter disappeared he's been hiding away in Scotland, working as a forensics lecturer.
In Manchester, drug addicts are turning up dead and Simms' superior is only too pleased to hand the problem to her. Then a celebrity dies and the media gets interested. Another overdose victim shows up, but this time the woman has been systematically beaten and all identifying features removed. The evidence doesn't add up; Simms' superiors seem to be obstructing her investigation; and the one person she can't afford to associate with is the one man who can help: Fennimore.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Under the Garrett pseudonym, crime writer Margaret Murphy (Now You See Me) and forensic scientist Dave Barclay take an unflinching look at two people rebuilding their lives, and at the underworld of Manchester, England, in this outstanding collaborative debut, which balances the intricacies of forensics with the cerebral instincts of crime investigation. Det. Insp. Kate Simms's promising career derailed five years earlier when she gave forensics expert Nick Fennimore inside information about the investigation into the disappearance of his wife, Rachel, and their 10-year-old daughter, Suzie. A case involving prostitutes who have died from tainted drugs may put Kate's career back on track. Although a suspect is arrested after a pop star's overdose, Simms believes that the case is far from over when more women die. For help, Kate turns to Nick, who now works as a forensics lecturer at Gordon University in Aberdeen and scans age progression sites to see how his daughter may have aged. The brisk plot never strays with its complex exploration of prostitutes and crime lords and its affecting look at Kate and Nick's complicated relationship.
