The Liar's Lullaby

The Liar's Lullaby

"The next suspense superstar" - Stephen King.

When you have to take on the White House there's only one woman to call - Jo Beckett

Best known for her hugely popular Evan Delaney series, Meg Gardiner's books on the passionate, tenacious and intelligent forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett have already garnered significant praise. The third book in the series, The Liar's Lullaby, is another pulse-pounding, race-against-time thriller from this crime-fiction mastermind. A harrowing spine-chiller packed with intrigue and suspense, The Liar's Lullaby will leave you thirsty for more.

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, but Jo has learnt of an obsessed fan who was stalking Tasia and her new boyfriend, a famous country singer. When Jo calls the police she's too late; the stalker has killed again, and the police, in turn, have killed the stalker. The case seems to have come to a spectacular conclusion. But now Jo's not so sure the stalker killed Tasia after all. And she's nervous, because the President is on his way to San Francisco to attend the memorial service …

Praise for Meg Gardiner
'The Memory Collector is a well-paced and well-structured thriller in which a large cast of characters and a great deal of detail have been cleverly managed so that the story … rolls on smoothly' - Sydney Morning Herald
'Meg Gardiner is an astonishing writer' Tess Gerritsen
'A winner in every way. The Dirty Secrets Club is nuanced and layered - and a harrowing thriller that chews up the streets of San Francisco from the high-rises to the Tenderloin. 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 - the psychiatrist who analyzes dead people for the cops and who's willing to trade her cell phone for a cup of coffee' - Jeffery Deaver
'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 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.

The Liar's Lullaby
Harper Collins Publishers
Author: Meg Gardiner
ISBN: 9780007337620
Price: $32.99