No More Lies

NO MORE LIES RACHEL ABBOTT No More Lies Published in 2023 by Black Dot Publishing Ltd. Copyright © Rachel Abbott 2023. Rachel Abbott has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are a product of the author’s imagination. Locales and public names are sometimes used for atmospheric purposes. Any resemblance to actual people, living or dead, or to businesses, companies, events, institutions or locales is completely coincidental. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the author. Find out more about the author and her other books at http://www.rachel-abbott.com/ CONTENTS Wednesday Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Friday Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Saturday Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Sunday Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 Chapter 41 Chapter 42 Chapter 43 Chapter 44 Chapter 45 Chapter 46 Chapter 47 Chapter 48 Chapter 49 Chapter 50 Chapter 51 Chapter 52 Chapter 53 Chapter 54 Chapter 55 Chapter 56 Chapter 57 Monday Chapter 58 Chapter 59 Chapter 60 Chapter 61 Chapter 62 Chapter 63 Chapter 64 Chapter 65 Chapter 66 Chapter 67 Chapter 68 Chapter 69 Chapter 70 Chapter 71 Chapter 72 Chapter 73 Tuesday Chapter 74 Chapter 75 Chapter 76 Chapter 77 Chapter 78 Chapter 79 Chapter 80 Chapter 81 Chapter 82 Chapter 83 Chapter 84 Chapter 85 Chapter 86 Chapter 87 Chapter 88 Chapter 89 Chapter 90 Chapter 91 10 days later Chapter 92 Chapter 93 A letter to my readers Acknowledgments About the Author Also by Rachel Abbott The Tom Douglas Series The Stephanie King Series WEDNESDAY “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.” Friedrich Nietzsche PROLOGUE 11.45 p.m. The noise in the busy bar is deafening and the young woman casts an uneasy glance over her shoulder. She looks nervous, terrified someone might be watching. Her thoughts are clear: Will people know who I am, why I’m here, what I’ve done? Everyone is having a good time. No one is interested. Except me, of course. ‘We need 1 4 hours earlier ‘Mallory! So glad you could make it. Come in, come in!’ Eve’s face is flushed, and she pushes out her bottom lip and blows upwards in a vain attempt to cool herself. ‘Everyone’s in the sitting room – you know where it is. Go through while I get back to my canapés.’ With that, she scurries off