Description
Simply Lies by David Baldacci is a psychological thriller and the first novel in the Mickey Gibson series. Mickey Gibson is a single mother and former detective who works remotely for ProEye, a global investigation company that tracks down wealthy tax and credit cheats. Her ordinary routine changes when a colleague asks her to inventory the vacant home of an arms dealer who has supposedly fled.
When Mickey arrives at the mansion, she discovers a dead body hidden in a secret room. She soon learns that the supposed arms dealer does not exist, the victim is a man with mob connections who was once in Witness Protection, and the colleague who sent her there is not a ProEye employee at all. Suddenly Mickey is a murder suspect and must prove that she has been deliberately framed, while trying to outwit a mysterious and highly skilled con artist whose motives remain unknown.
A good choice for readers who enjoy psychological thrillers, crime investigations, con artists, twists and cat-and-mouse stories with determined female protagonists.
