Liar Liar (A Helen Grace Thriller)

Author: Arlidge, M. J.

Color: Multicolor

Features:

• New Amer Library

Number Of Pages: 464

Details:

Detective Helen Grace gets caught in an inferno of death and destruction in the red-hot new thriller from the author of Eeny Meeny, Pop Goes the Weasel, and The Doll’s House… Detective Helen Grace has never seen such destruction. Six fires in twenty-four hours. Two people dead. Several more injured. It’s as if someone wants to burn the city to the ground...   With the whole town on high alert, Helen and her team must sift through the rubble to find the arsonist, someone whose thirst for fire—and control—is reducing entire lives to ash.   One misstep could mean Helen’s career—and more lives lost. And as the pressure mounts and more buildings burn, Helen’s own dark impulses threaten to consume her…

Reviews:

“Arlidge’s fourth novel featuring Southampton Det. Insp. Helen Grace is so good that it will send new readers scrambling to catch up with the earlier books in the series…Arlidge’s minor characters are movingly real, and the story’s twists are surprising and convincing. Helen, who bears both physical and emotional scars, emerges as one of crime fiction’s most compelling detectives.”

— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Praise for the Detective Helen Grace thrillers  

“Dark, twisted, thought provoking.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag  

“Mesmerizing!”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner  

“Fresh and brilliant.”

— New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver  

“Helen Grace is fiendishly awesome.”

— New York Times bestselling author Will Lavender  

“Gripping...a flawed but winning heroine.”

— USA Today

About the Author:

M. J. Arlidge is the international bestselling author of the Detective Helen Grace Thrillers, including The Doll’s House, Pop Goes the Weasel and his debut, Eeny Meeny, which has been sold in twenty-eight countries. He has worked in television for the past fifteen years. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. This excerpt is from an advance uncorrected proof Copyright © 2016 M.J. Arlidge 1 Luke scrambled through the open window and onto the narrow ledge outside. Grasping the plastic guttering above his head, he pulled himself upright. The guttering creaked ominously, threatening to give way at any moment, but Luke couldn’t risk letting go. He was dizzy, breathless and very, very scared. A blast of icy wind roared over him, flapping his thin cotton pajamas like a manic kite. He was already losing the feeling in his feet—the chill from the rough stone creeping up his body—and the sixteen-year-old knew he would have to act quickly if he was to save his life. Slowly he inched his way forward, peering over the lip of the ledge. The cars, the people below, seemed so small—the hard, unforgiving road so far away. He’d always had a thing about heights, and as he looked down from this top-floor vantage point, his first instinct was to recoil. To turn back into the house. But he stood firm. He couldn’t believe what he was contemplating, but he didn’t have a choice, so releasing his grip, he hung his toes over the edge and prepared to jump. He counted down in his head. Three, two, one . . . Suddenly he lost his nerve, dragging himself back from the brink. His spine connected sharply with the iron window frame and for a moment he rested there, clamping his eyes shut to block out the panic now assailing him. If he jumped, he would die. Surely there had to be another way? Something else he could do? Luke turned back toward the window and looked once more at the horror within. His attic bedroom was ablaze. It had all happened so quickly that he still couldn’t process the sequence of events. He’d gone to bed as usual but had been woken shortly afterward by a chorus of smoke alarms. He’d stumbled out of bed, groggy and confused, waving his arms back and forth in a vain attempt to disperse the thick smoke that filled the room. He’d managed to scramble to the door, but even before he got there, he saw that he was too late. The narrow stai...

EAN: 9781101991350

Release Date: 07-06-2016

Languages: English

Item Note: Great shape- pages are unmarked and sharp.Has a remainder mark. Paperback Used - Like New Ships fast! 2016

Item Condition: UsedLikeNew

Binding: Paperback