The Lies We Tell (The Undertaker’s Daughter #2) by Debra Webb
Release: September 17th 2019
Format: Ebook
Publisher: MIRA
Source: Netgalley
Synopsis:
Nothing hurts like the truth.
Doctor Rowan Dupont knows a serial killer is coming for her. Julian Addington has been waiting. Watching. And it’s only a matter of time before he strikes. But what Julian doesn’t know is that Rowan is ready for him. And more than anything she wants answers. How well did the depraved killer actually know her mother? And how many lies have been spun in the years since she took her own life?
Working alongside her childhood friend Police Chief Billy Brannigan, Rowan is determined to get to the bottom of her mother’s puzzling suicide once and for all—even if it means exposing an unsettling past. It certainly seems like her family’s Victorian funeral home has borne witness to more than one dark secret, but when a recent double homicide leads to an even grislier discovery, separating the truth from the lies might be the last thing Rowan does.
The Lies We Tell Review:
A big thank you to NetGalley and Harlequin-Mira for providing me an advanced reader’s copy of “The Lies We Tell“. To be honest, I didn’t know that this was the 2nd book in a series. However, I was able to read this book without any knowledge of the previous one.
I had mixed feelings on reading this book. Even though it is interesting for the most part, I felt it could have been better. The author seems to repeat the dialogues and indirectly recap whatever happened in the previous chapters, which I felt was unnecessary. For example, Billy interviews the victim’s sons in one chapter. In the following chapter, he reiterates the same to Ro in detail, which was not needed. Also, the book opens up a lot of questions that remain unanswered, which I guess would be explained in the final book of the series. In some ways, this was very disappointing. When reading a series, it is nice to have a few conflicts resolved and have the main plot unresolved to tempt the reader to pick up the next book. But in “The Lies We Tell”, almost all the subplots raised are unresolved which I felt frustrated with.
Nevertheless, I liked the overall theme of the book. Ro and Billy are interesting as the main characters, and I liked how the plot progresses with new twists and turns. I also liked the chemistry between the two and how they try to overcome it. Also, I am not sure if I will pick the first book in the series, but I will definitely read the final book “The Darkness we Hide”. I feel like after investing so much time in reading this book, I definitely want to read the following book to see how it ends. Overall, “The Lies We Tell” was a gripping mystery-crime novel but would have been written better.
