Lies

Lies by T.M. Logan 

ISBN: 978-1785770555

Publish Date: May 4 2017 / September 11 2018

Read Date: 07/11/2018 - 07/14/2018


Thank You to Macmillan Publishers and T.M. Logan for an advanced readers copy in exchange for my honest review.

Everyone thinks they know their life, and the people they spend their life with. You know their schedules, their car, their habits. But, do you really?

Married for 12 years and living a happy and content life is Joe, Mel and their 4 year old son William. 

While driving home one day little William spots his mothers car driving on the other side of the road. Excited to surprise his mom and show her his new award from school, he pleads with his father to turn around and follow Mom to catch up with her. 
Joe is able to catch up to Mel and realizes that he has followed her into a hotel parking lot. Joe is confused as to why his wife would be in a hotel in the middle of the day, so Joe decides to investigate. 

As Joe approaches the hotel, he sees Mel in a heated conversation, or possible argument with a man. Joe recognizes the man as Ben Delaney, a friend of both his and Mel. Joes mind a going a mile a minute and he is coming up with any number of scenarios that could explain why its in the middle of the day and his wife is in a hotel, arguing with their friend, their married friend. Not long after the heated conversation began, it ended with Mel and Ben going their separate ways.

Still in the parking lot Joe attempts to get Mels attention as she speeds away, instead finds himself face to face with Ben. Joe tries to get information out of Ben, who is not wanting to talk. Yelling takes place, and punches are thrown. Being a slightly bigger guy, Joe has an advantage on Ben. When Joe punches Ben, Ben goes down, hard. Ben falls and hits his head on the ground. While trying to check on Ben, Joe realizes that William is having an asthma attack in the car. To no avail  Joe hurriedly tries to locate Williams inhaler. Joe makes the choice to leave Ben in the parking lot of the hotel and speed home to get William his inhaler. Somewhere in all the chaos, Joe realizes he can't find his cell phone. 


Once home and William taken care of and settled down, Joe returns to the Hotel to check on Ben. Bens car and Ben are gone from the scene. Joe returns home and attempts to contact Ben. There is no answer and no reply. 


A day or so passes and Beth, Bens wife has reported Ben missing to the police and Ben has become the main suspect in the investigation. 

Soon Joe starts seeing strange messages show up on his facebook wall, and begins getting weird texts and emails from his own account. The messages get more threatening, eventually Joe is told that everything will be taken from him. His Teaching job, his Wife and his son. Joe tries desperately to make the police realize that it is Ben sending the messages. The police are not convinced.

Joe tries to get Beth to work with him to prove that he is innocent and that Ben is in fact alive, well and pulling the strings to this sordid ordeal. Beth begins to confide in Joe that she is being followed by a black vehicle. Joe starts to see this black vehicle possibly following him as well. 



One evening, Beth or her daughter texts Joe that the Black vehicle is at their house and they need help. Joe rushes over to Beths house. 

It's at this point that all of the Lies begin to unravel and the truth is spread out right in front of him. 

It's absolutely not what Joe expected. 

How well do you know the one you love the most.