{"product_id":"book-2dqh","title":"The Lies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetective novels, she said, were for simpletons and spinsters. But she translated them anyway – because someone she loved couldn’t live without them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1936, London.\u003c\/b\u003e Edie Adler slips into the back pew of a memorial service for her dearest friend, Vee Saunders – presumed dead, her body never found. As politicians murmur condolences to Vee’s powerful husband, Edie sits with a fury she can barely contain. She knows things about this marriage no one in the room would dare speak aloud. And she refuses to believe that Vee is gone. She closes her eyes and she’s back in the warm Mediterranean water – the salt on her skin, Vee’s hands keeping her afloat, that voice in her ear: \u003ci\u003edon’t worry, I won’t let you sink\u003c\/i\u003e…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1918, Malta\u003c\/b\u003e. 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