A RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK SCREEN RIGHTS SOLD TO THE PRODUCTION COMPANY OF BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA 'One of the best suspenseful dramas I've read in years' ASHLEY AUDRAIN 'A sprawling, stunning, twisting triumph' CHRIS WHITAKER 'Intelligent and nuanced . . . raises a host of difficult but fascinating questions' GUARDIAN 'Breath-taking and brimming with empathy, exploration of motherhood, marriage, and the consequences that come from obsessions with true crime' COSMOPOLITAN _______ Lore Rivera was married to two men at once, until on a baking hot day in 1986, one of them found out and shot the other. A secret double life, a tragic murder. That's the story the world knows. It's not the story that fascinates Cassie Bowman. Carrying the weight of her own family tragedy, true-crime writer Cassie wants to know more about the mysterious woman at the heart of it all: Lore. And to her surprise, Lore is willing to talk - about how a dance became an affair; how a marriage became a murder. As the two women grow closer, Cassie finds she can't help but confess her own darkest secrets. But when it becomes clear that there might be more to the night of the murder than anyone realised, can either woman face up to the thing they've been hiding from . . . the truth? _______ SHORTLISTED FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL AT THE EDGAR AWARDS