Mark Timlin is a British author best known for his series of novels featuring Nick Sharman, a former Metropolitan Police officer who takes up the profession of private investigator in South London. He is also a renowned book reviewer and literary commentator. His most recent work is REAP THE WHIRLWIND. In his early years he did various jobs including work as a member of the road crew for THE WHO, including working backstage at Woodstock in the 1960s on the lighting cranes
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One White Lie is another fine slice of treachery, mystery and imagination from Penguin books who seem to have the blue ribbon for the genre at the present.
At the start, Lucy is on the run from an abusive relationship with a man she thought was the only one for her. She’d fled from New York to the Catskills with her dog Dusty, changed her number, deleted her social networks, and became a new person.
After Dusty does his business on her neighbours’ front lawn, Lucy becomes friends with John and Vera, the very epitome of Woodstock shabby chic: Unwashed dishes, un-swept floors, plenty of wine and weed, and the couple own an art gallery to boot. Cool, or what?
But don’t let appearances fool you. There are dark deeds afoot.
Not that Lucy is the perfect princess she pretends to be. She’s put it about a bit as the saying goes, or used to, before such expressions were deemed infra dig. And she’s certainly no stranger to Pinot Noir, though who am I to talk? Terminally paranoid, and guilt tripping herself constantly, when she finds herself attracted to John, she gets into a terrible state. At the same time someone from her past turns up in Woodstock and she‘s terrified that her ex will find out her whereabouts. But she can’t leave John and Vera, her only friends.
That’s enough detail I think, without spoiling the convoluted (in a good way) plot, and that would never do. Just be aware that One White Lie is a terrific thriller. A page turner ‘til the very end.
