All the Best Lies

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FBI 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 cribmere steps away. The trail went so cold that the Las Vegas Police Department has given up hopeof solving the case. But then a shattering family secret changes everything Reed knows about hisorigins, his murdered mother, and his powerful adoptive father, state senator Angus Markham. NowReed 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 bothtroubled families and diabolical murderers, having narrowly escaped from each of them. She'seager to skip town, too, because her own father, who abandoned her years ago, is suddenlydesperate to get back in contact. He also has a secret that could change her life forever, if Ellerywill let him close enough to hear it.

Author Bio

Joanna Schaffhausen is a scientific editor who previously worked as an editorial producer for ABC News, where she advised and wrote for programs such as World News Tonight, Good Morning America and 20/20. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and daughter. The Vanishing Season is her first novel.