Amy Myers is known for her short stories and historical novels featuring Victorian chef Auguste Didier and chimney sweep Tom Wasp. Her contemporary series feature ex-cop Peter Marsh and Daughter and classic car detective Jack Colby, and she is currently working on a new series starring Cara Shelley who runs a café in the grounds of stately home Tanton Towers.
Website: www.amymyers.net
A debut novel that is built on seven lies, so the narrator, Jane Baxter, tells us as soon as it opens. What a debut! What a thriller! Its author Elizabeth Kay knows well how to build suspense in this psychological triumph, because she begins her crime fiction career side by side with her editorial position in publishing. Editing novels doesn’t automatically grant a passport for writing ability and skills, but in Elizabeth Kay’s case it most certainly has.
Most people have a best friend at school and Jane Baxter’s was the popular and attractive Marnie Gregory. They did everything together, they were a pair, and it seemed nothing could harm their relationship. After their schooldays they share a flat while they establishing themselves in their separate careers. Doesn’t sound like the stuff of a gripping thriller? You wait! Jane then meets John, falls in love and marries him. Marnie meets the charismatic, attention-seeking Charles – and that leads to Jane’s first lie of the seven. All of them might be for the right reasons – but the path to the hell in front of them is now open.
Seven Lies leads the reader step by step up a staircase that turns unexpected sharp corners with its shocks and surprises. A remarkable debut by a remarkable author.
