The secrets of those closest to us can be the most dangerous of all.
Months after her husband, Sean, is killed by a hit-and-run driver, physicist Georgie Brennan discovers he lied to her about where he had been going that day. A cryptic notebook, a missing computer, and strange noises under her house soon have her questioning everything she thought she knew.
Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. I’m itching to get started on my FLF pick this week: State of Lies by Siri Mitchell. And the first line has nothing to do with that. 😉 I’m always up for a great suspense read, and I just love the sound of this one!
“John Barns?” Who was John Barns? And how did he figure into any of this? Her brow puckered. “John Barns. Your father.” John Barns was a name I’d never heard. It sounded like one of those men my father always made fun of. One of those stolid, serious men of good character and very little imagination. Ezra Pennyworth – or Pennwith or Penfield or Pennman, depending upon the situation – couldn’t be a John Barns, could he? “I’m sorry, my dear. It must pain you to hear me speak of such things. He was your father after all. I’ll