Detective Karen Hart Lie to Me, Book 12, (Paperback)

<p><b>As soon as he picks up the phone, Arnie knows something is terribly wrong. 'We've found him. Damon's finally been found.' For thirty-five years, DS Arnie Hodgson believed his childhood friend was dead. But he didn't die back then. He was murdered yesterday.</b></p><p>DS Karen Hart's heart breaks for her colleague as she joins the investigation, but soon the case takes a darker turn. Burned into Damon's chest is a vivid scarlet mark--a Victorian branding iron shaped like a scythe. <b>Why did Damon vanish that night? And why has someone killed him now?</b></p><p>As Karen and Arnie track down his old friends in the small coastal town of Humberston, they become sure answers lie buried in Arnie's past; they were all together at the fairground that summer night thirty-five years ago when Damon disappeared. And when the detectives uncover another body, it's clear someone will kill to keep their secrets buried.</p><p>Then another person close to Arnie is brutally murdered--with the same vivid scarlet mark seared into their skin. And when a driver tries to run Arnie down in a car, he must finally confront a terrifying question: <b>is one of his old friends a killer? And if so, can he bring them to justice before they turn on him next?</b></p>

• Detective Karen Hart Lie to Me, Book 12, (Paperback)
• Author: D S Butler
• ISBN: 9781662535758
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-09-08
• Page Count: 427