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The Lies I Told

For a woman obsessed and a killer in her shadow, remembering the past becomes a mind game in a novel of psychological suspense by New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton.

Twin sisters Marisa and Clare Stockton were 16 when Clare’s body was found in Virginia’s James River. No arrests were made. Fourteen years later, Marisa’s friends and dedicated career as a photographer help her to cope with the open wound of the past. But Marisa still feels the hurt --- and the unsolved murder isn’t the only thing haunting her.

A recent car crash has erased 10 days of Marisa’s memories --- a black hole leading up to the accident that’s left her disoriented. Every text and phone call from that crucial missing time has vanished, along with her phone. A photograph she took of the river has disappeared. A new neighbor Marisa believes she knows introduces himself as if he were a stranger. And there’s the growing fear that her near-fatal accident was no accident at all. As dreams of Clare and nightmares of the crash begin to converge, so do two disturbing puzzles 14 years apart.

Putting the pieces together could be fatal. As she struggles to remember everything, Marisa closes in on a killer --- without realizing that he’s already closed in on her.

Audiobook available; read by Emily Ellet, Josh Bloomberg, Sarah Beth Pfeifer, Arnell Powell, Amanda Stribling and Andrew Eiden

The Lies I Told
by Mary Burton