The first-person narrative shows her to be en route to her children's school at the time the murder occurred. The reader knows from the start that Nicki had nothing to do with the crime. On the wall, scrawled not in blood but red paint, is a mysterious phrase: He Is No Less Dead. (I must confess, without giving any spoilers, that they didn't seem all that macabre to me.) The victim, Damon Blundy, was a well-known journalist - and a man Nicki actually knew. When a brutal murder takes place in Nicki's neighborhood investigators are puzzled about its macabre details. Woman With a Secret tells the story of Nicki Clements, a woman who feels a pathological need to lie in order to survive. It's the latest in her series of psychological thrillers featuring the husband-and-wife detectives Simon Waterhouse and Charlotte Zailer. British author Sophie Hannah hit that theme heavily in a recent interview, saying, 'I can remember knowing from a very young age that there would be disastrous consequences if anyone were to discover how I truly felt and what I honestly thought.' Now, Hannah has transferred this crippling paranoia to Woman With a Secret, about the labyrinthine, sometimes cruel machinations of outwardly nice married folks with way too much time on their hands. Your purchase helps support NPR programming.

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