Leah Konen

Imagine you've finally escaped the worst relationship of your life, running away with only a suitcase and a black eye. Imagine your new next-door neighbours are the friends you so desperately needed - fun, kind, empathetic, very much in love. Imagine they're in trouble. That someone is telling lies about them, threatening their livelihoods - and even their lives. Imagine your ex is coming for you.

If your new best friends needed you to tell one small lie, and all of these problems would disappear, you'd do it, wouldn't you? It's only one small lie, until someone turns up dead.

When her husband Harry walks out after just six months, Sam has never been in more need of a getaway.

So when her friends Diana and Margaret - newly single themselves - suggest a girls' weekend away, Sam can't accept soon enough.

But then things start to go wrong. Car trouble on the road leaves them stranded. And what's more, it's in the town where he lives.

Sam is sure a big night out can't hurt. After all, it's hardly likely that Harry would show up, right?

And no one could ever expect the night would end in murder...

Having a child was supposed to make Janie and Max's lives complete. But six weeks in, Janie relies on Max just to get through the day. Until the night he doesn't come home.

Suddenly Janie is left alone with their baby. She's desperate for answers. And when a woman's body is found, his disappearance raises serious alarms. For Janie, and for the police...

Janie is sure Max couldn't be involved. But the harder she looks for him, the more she realises how much Max has been hiding...