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  • Published: 23 May 2023
  • ISBN: 9780786050154
  • Imprint: Kensington
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $17.99

Lying Next to Me




No matter what you see, no matter what you’ve heard, assume nothing.

Adam and Sophie Warner and their three-year-old daughter are vacationing in Washington State’s Hood Canal for Memorial Day weekend. It’s the perfect getaway to relax—and to calm an uneasy marriage. But on Adam’s first day out on the water, he sees Sophie abducted by a stranger. A hundred yards from shore, Adam can’t save her. And Sophie disappears.

In a nearby cabin is another couple, Kristen and Connor Moss. Unfortunately, beyond what they’ve heard in the news, they’re in the dark when it comes to Sophie’s disappearance. For Adam, at least there’s comfort in knowing that Mason County detective Lee Husemann is an old friend of his. She’ll do everything she can to help. She must.

But as Adam’s paranoia about his missing wife escalates, Lee puts together the pieces of a puzzle. The lives of the two couples are converging in unpredictable ways, and the picture is unsettling. Lee suspects that not everyone is telling the truth about what they know—or they have yet to reveal all the lies they’ve hidden from the strangers they married.

  • Published: 23 May 2023
  • ISBN: 9780786050154
  • Imprint: Kensington
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $17.99

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Praise for Lying Next to Me

Praise for Lying Next to Me



Lying Next to Me is a clever, chilling puzzle of a tale. A riveting, sharp‑edged page‑turner, it’s Gregg Olsen’s best book yet.” —A.J. Banner, USA Today bestselling author


“A dark, claustrophobic thriller filled with twists and turns. A brilliant book.” —Caroline Mitchell, #1 international bestselling
author

“In Lying Next to Me, [Olsen] has given us a first‑rate work of psychological complexity as well as a mystery that is full of twists
and is quite a grabber.” —Popular Culture Association