The Liar's Lullaby
Meg Gardiner(Author)
Blue Door (Publisher)
Published on 27. May 2010
Book
Hardback
284 pages
978-0-00-733761-3 (ISBN)
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Description
When you have to take on the White House there's only one woman to call -- Jo Beckett. When a rock singer is killed onstage during a concert, Jo Beckett is called in to perform a psychological autopsy. But Tasia McFarland's death causes Jo all kinds of problems, because Tasia is the ex-wife of the President of the United States. The White House pressures Jo to declare Tasia's death an accident rather than a suicide. The media and conspiracy nuts rant that Tasia was knocked off to silence her, for unknown reasons. Fringe extremists seethe about taking direct action to "save America" from the president and his administration. Jo learns that an obsessed fan was apparently stalking Tasia. The stalker may have killed her and escaped in the panic at the concert. As the media and conspiracy frenzy grows, the White House leans harder on Jo to close the case. When she won't, Gabe Quintana finds his military orders suddenly changed, and he's called up to active duty in Afghanistan...in 72 hours. Jo discovers the identity of the stalker. It's someone who's obsessed with Tasia's new boyfriend, a famous country singer. Jo calls the police but she's too late.
The stalker stabs the singer to death. The police kill the stalker. The case seems to have come to a spectacular conclusion. But Jo doesn't think the stalker in fact murdered Tasia; the facts don't add up. She fears that Tasia was killed for other reasons. And she's nervous, because the President is coming to San Francisco to attend Tasia's memorial service!
The stalker stabs the singer to death. The police kill the stalker. The case seems to have come to a spectacular conclusion. But Jo doesn't think the stalker in fact murdered Tasia; the facts don't add up. She fears that Tasia was killed for other reasons. And she's nervous, because the President is coming to San Francisco to attend Tasia's memorial service!
Reviews / Votes
Praise for THE MEMORY COLLECTOR: 'The next suspense superstar.' STEPHEN KING 'Meg Gardiner is an astonishing writer.' TESS GERRITSEN 'Riveting...a book you just can't put down...The Memory Collector is a first-class thriller with non-stop action.' CHICAGO SUN-TIMES 'Meg Gardiner captivates...an exceptional follow up to her first Beckett novel, The Dirty Secrets Club.' CAROLYN LESSARD, ASSOCIATED PRESS Praise for THE DIRTY SECRETS CLUB: 'Author Gardiner makes every one of her characters leap alive off the page, and I personally am in love with the most compelling of them all, Jo Beckett.' JEFFERY DEAVER 'The story just keeps coming. She is up there with Michael Connelly and Lee Child.' STEPHEN KING 'Hitchcockian scenes of suspense will rock even the most jaded thriller reader.' MIAMI HERALDMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-00-733761-3 (9780007337613)
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Meg Gardiner
The Liar's Lullaby
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05/2010
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Person
Meg Gardiner is originally from Southern California, where she practiced law and taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of five Evan Delaney novels as well as the first Jo Beckett thriller, The Dirty Secrets Club, described by Jeffery Deaver as "A winner all the way." She lives with her family near London.