Amy is curious about the elderly woman who pores endlessly over an album of family snaps because she has known, from an early age, that photographs tell lies.  Her own mother, who suffered from Munchausen’s Syndrome By Proxy, used snaps of the daughter she’d made sick to try and keep the affections of Amy’s father George, a charismatic but elusive conman.  Then George appears on Amy’s doorstep after a long absence and tells her that he is dying of cancer.  Should she believe him?  As she reluctantly becomes involved in one of her father’s shady schemes, she discovers that he may have been telling lies about far more than his health.  And when she begins to investigate the Shand case, Amy realises that there is more to the murder of Leslie than the police ever unearthed, including two long-buried skeletons in woods near the family’s home…

“A mesmerising unpicking of the damage done within families. The writing is compelling and stylish. Laura Wilson really is out of the top drawer.” Mo Hayder

“Psychological thriller by one of the rising stars of British crime writing.” Maxim Jakubowski, The Bookseller

“Compelling novel…[that] grabs the reader’s attention and hangs on to it while miseries multiply far beyond the compass of your average crime fiction.” Literary Review

“Laura Wilson is another class act who just gets better and better…Wilson is the equal of Rendell and Walters in exploring the dark depths of the twisted psyche. But she’s just as good at laying bare the emotions of damaged victims.  A Thousand Lies is superb – creepy, moving and surprising.”  Peter Guttridge, The Observer