City of Lies

City of Lies
Alafair Burke

A fast-paced thriller from Alafair Burke, where no-one in Manhattan is safe. And no-one is innocent.In New York City nights are dangerous. Days are numbered.When New York University student Megan Gunther is brutally murdered, NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher and partner J.J. Rogan discover that Megan has been on the receiving end of some sinister online threats.Is her death the result of a campus feud that got out of hand or could there be a twisted cyber fanatic at work?And when a link is revealed between Megan and a murdered real-estate agent, Ellie comes to wonder if there was something else behind the student’s death.Ellie learns that the dead woman shared a secret connection to a celebrity mogul whose bodyguard was mysteriously killed a few months earlier.When Megan's roommate disappears, the hunt for the killer is really on…With fans including everyone from Michael Connelly, Harlan Coben, and Lee Child to Tess Gerritsen, Lisa Gardner and Kathy Reichs, Alafair Burke gives us another nail-biting thriller to keep us on the edge of our seats.

City of Lies

Alafair Burke

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Table of Contents

Cover Page (#uf73cc827-4cf5-5b92-9150-10a108216fe6)

Title Page (#u216b6ed9-8ba8-534d-867d-283e8832e4c8)

Copyright (#u3980cae2-aebe-5c51-b446-777636a49bd1)

Dedication (#u1093b1fe-cec1-5f41-ba92-79231b65c74d)

Chapter One (#u8ed60536-8526-58bb-a362-62c37bcbf68d)

Chapter Two (#ufb526e63-fb83-5aba-83ee-3a7088273958)

Part I You Can’t Let This Get to You. (#u5bf92fad-16c0-5c53-9023-408f4baffec7)

Chapter Three (#u9dedd07a-aa6c-5683-bf83-457c1b75efce)

Chapter Four (#ud6a83754-0191-5b5b-8946-a8157065f391)

Chapter Five (#u4c7adecb-8950-5c67-9612-873b9f2018ba)

Chapter Six (#uee205580-da09-558c-81fb-085f32a9a792)

Chapter Seven (#u98006e72-fec6-5345-aca7-667489030881)

Chapter Eight (#ub098e95b-b09c-56d3-a02b-719cd01941bf)

Chapter Nine (#u639d59b9-92d2-5695-8609-0f38d961a530)

Chapter Ten (#u981686ea-2cbb-5f88-9e90-37b7fcea1a48)

Chapter Eleven (#uaa2332bf-e483-5edb-861e-33c35bf40b4c)

Chapter Twelve (#u0f9bac3d-bd52-5106-9006-37023cd94c76)

Chapter Thirteen (#uc50fa169-e27d-57f8-b608-d4daaed28bd6)

Chapter Fourteen (#u5f142745-97a1-5edb-b2d3-72fa7f6acb92)

Chapter Fifteen (#u3eea7e0b-e39f-52ac-9ad9-1a0c73b34649)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Part II ‘Go Ahead. Lie to Me.’ (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-One (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Two (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Three (#litres_trial_promo)