What Lies Beneath
A Laura Chambers Novel
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
Perfect for fans of Jeffery Deaver and J.A. Jance, in this thrilling second book in the series, Laura Chambers finds herself caught in a deadly web of small town secrets.
Hillsborough, North Carolina is a town with a dark history that is bubbling to the surface. Twenty years ago, Laura’s friend’s family was slaughtered in their beds, and the sole survivor, Laura’s eight-year-old friend, was whisked away to distant relatives. That was the last time Laura ever saw her best friend.
Twenty years later, a woman runs onto the interstate, directly into the path of a truck, and the gruesome accident leaves behind a mangled corpse. Her very last phone call was to Laura, just before she was killed, but her face is disfigured beyond recognition. Identification seems impossible, and the victim was barefoot and in a state of undress. The only thing in her possession is an old photograph depicting Laura, Laura’s father—and standing next to them, her lost friend from childhood.
Laura’s father passed away when she was eight, and she thought she understood why he vanished from her life in the year before he died, but the photograph and the corpse begin to cast doubt on everything she thought she knew.
As the lines between fact and fiction blur, Laura digs into the history of the deceased, and her own family, determined to discover what lies beneath…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hetherton's exciting sequel to 2018's Last Girl Gone finds Laura Chambers, hard-charging investigative reporter for the Hillsborough Gazette, enmeshed in a case that hits way too close to home. Simon Barrow (aka the Shotgun Slayer) was convicted of murdering Bob and Linda Merritt back in 1996. The Merritts lived on a farm in Hillsborough, N.C., a town that's become infamous since the murder. As Barrow's execution date nears in 2019, Laura writes a retrospective of the case that gets plenty of attention. Soon afterward, a young woman is killed on a local highway, and it turns out she had tried to call Laura four times before her death. The sheriff's office believes Laura knows more than she's sharing and warns her off the case, but she's determined to investigate further, whatever the cost. The cost, it turns out, is steep indeed as Laura loses far more than her credibility with the local police and her boss at the Hillsborough Gazette. Hetherton's sure hand provides plenty of action and intrigue, with well-defined yet deeply flawed characters. Readers will want more.