All the Best Lies, Joanna Schaffhausen
All the Best Lies, Joanna Schaffhausen
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All the Best Lies

Author: Joanna Schaffhausen

Narrator: Lauren Fortgang

Unabridged: 10 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/11/2020


Synopsis

The third novel in the award-winning Ellery Hathaway mystery seriesFBI agent Reed Markham is haunted by one painful unsolved mystery: who murdered his mother? Camilla was brutally stabbed to death more than forty years ago while baby Reed lay in his crib mere steps away. The trail went so cold that the Las Vegas Police Department had given up hope of solving the case. But then a shattering family secret changes everything Reed knows about his origins, his murdered mother, and his powerful adoptive father, state senator Angus Markham. Now Reed has to wonder if his mother’s killer is uncomfortably close to home.Unable to trust his family with the details of his personal investigation, Reed enlists his friend, suspended cop Ellery Hathaway, to join his quest in Vegas. Ellery has experience with both troubled families and diabolical murderers, having narrowly escaped from each of them. She’s eager to skip town, too, because her own father, who abandoned her years ago, is suddenly desperate to get back in contact. He also has a secret that could change her life forever, if Ellery will let him close enough to hear it.Far from home and relying only on each other, Reed and Ellery discover young Camilla had snared the attention of dangerous men, any of whom might have wanted to shut her up for good. They start tracing his twisted family history, knowing the path leads back to a vicious killer―one who has been hiding in plain sight for forty years and isn’t about to give up now.

About Joanna Schaffhausen

Joanna Schaffhausen wields a mean scalpel, skills developed in her years studying neuroscience. She has a doctorate in psychology, which reflects her long-standing interest in the brain―how it develops and the many ways it can go wrong. Previously, she worked for ABC News, writing for programs such as World News Tonight, Good Morning America, and 20/20. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and daughter. She is also the author of The Vanishing Season and No Mercy.

About Lauren Fortgang

Lauren Fortgang, a graduate of Fordham University’s Theater Program, is an actress, costume designer, and narrator. She has recorded everything from video games to textbooks. Her audiobook narrations have earned AudioFile Earphones Awards and placed her as a finalist for an Audie Award in 2014.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer on April 30, 2020

Are you all set to take a heart throbbing, exciting journey to Sin City by reading an amazing, captivating crime thriller story? If your answer is YES, join me and buckle up! We will have thrillingly fantastic time! Thanks to Reading Insiders Club of Macmillan Publishers, as a lucky redhead cow I got......more

Goodreads review by Mary Beth on February 21, 2020

4.5 Hidden Gem Stars! This is the third book in the Ellery Hathaway series. It was a hidden gem because I never heard of this series before and I am now excited. Lucky lucky me, I now have two more books in this series to read. This book was so good and I bet the other two books are gems too. It is a......more

Goodreads review by Jayme on October 19, 2021

3.5 ⭐️ We left off in book two of the series, with FBI profiler, Reed Markham discovering new information about his birth mother, who was brutally stabbed to death 40 years ago, while he lay in his crib, just steps away. Ellery Hathaway, a young girl he rescued from a serial killer, years prior, and t......more

Goodreads review by Susanne on January 12, 2020

4 stars Peril awaits Markham and Hathaway in the City that Never Sleeps. The day that FBI Agent Reed Markham asks suspended cop Ellery Hathaway for help, she of course, says yes. After all, he’s helped her on numerous occasions, and has even saved her life a few times. Trying to find out who killed M......more

Goodreads review by PamG on January 06, 2020

ALL THE BEST LIES by Joanna Schaffhausen is a crime thriller, a police procedural and the third book in the Ellery Hathaway mystery series. It is set mostly in Nevada and worked for me as a standalone novel. The main characters are FBI agent Reed Markham and a suspended police officer Ellery Hathaway......more


Quotes

“Chilling…Tight plotting and a few genuinely shocking twists propel this emotionally charged thriller all the way to the explosive finale.” Publishers Weekly

“A gripping (and sometimes steamy) read. A closing twist will shock readers, who will hold their breath for the next from Schaffhausen.” Booklist