Bad Liar

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Masterful #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag is back with a riveting,emotionally powerful new thriller! Small-town labels are hard to shake. Hometown hero. Fallen angel. Can anyone ever escape their past? A murder victim dumped at the dead end of a lonely country roadface and hands obliterated by a shotgun blastis not the way sheriffΓÇÖs detective Nick Fourcade wants to start his week. His only lead takes him to the family of a hometown hero suddenly gone missing. Marc Mercier left for a weekend hunting trip and hasnΓÇÖt been seen since. MeanwhilesheriffΓÇÖs detective Annie Broussard begins her first day back on the job after suffering a brutal attack by taking on the case of BΓÇÖLynn Fontenota mother desperate to find her grown sona recovering drug addict. Robbie Fontenot has been missing for eight daysbut the local police have no interest in the casetelling BΓÇÖLynn that an adult has the right to disappearand a missing addict is no big surprise. But BΓÇÖLynn swears her son was turning his life around. Sympathetic to a motherΓÇÖs anguishAnnie agrees to help BΓÇÖLynnknowing sheΓÇÖs about to start a turf war with the city police. As Annie searches for Robbie Fontenot and Nick investigates the disappearance of Marc Mercierit quickly becomes apparent that nothing is as it seems in the lives of either man. And itΓÇÖs still not clear whether eitherΓÇöor neitherΓÇöof them might be the unidentified murder victim. Old jealousies and fresh deceitsfamily loyalties gone wrong and love turned sour all lay a twisting trail that leads deep into the Louisiana swampendangering all who cross the path of a bad liar.