What Lies Beneath: A Laura Chambers Novel

The deeply flawed but intrepid Laura Chambers, from the "dark and vivid rabbit hole" (David Bell) of a thriller Last Girl Gone, finds herself lost in the deadly webs of small town secrets as she hunts for the truth about her father, who mysteriously disappeared several years ago. Tell me two truths and a lie. A year after her tangle with a local killer that left her disfigured, Laura is done licking her wounds. And she's done with the small town of Hillsborough, North Carolina. But the sheriff just found the mangled body of a woman who was reported missing several weeks ago. Her last phone call was to Laura. With an unidentifiable face, Laura can't shed light on why she was this woman's final call. To break free of the hostile sheriff's suspicion, Laura digs into the history of the deceased. What she finds completely upturns all she thought she knew or remembered. It's an old picture of Laura from when she was just a young girl, standing with her father, her father's best friend, and another little girl who Laura could have sworn was just a figment of her imagination. What else has she been mistaking for fiction? For truth? And more importantly--what did this woman have to do with her missing father? What was she calling to tell Laura?