Tell Me the Truth

Edith knows what it is to be lied to by her husband. So when she finds photographs of an unfamiliar woman on Joe's phone, she feels less shock than confirmation. She sets out to learn who the woman is.

The search never settles. Each answer raises another question, first about Joe, then about the marriage, and eventually about parts of Edith's own life she believed were closed.

To keep digging, Edith has to stop telling Joe what she is doing. Before long she is living a second, parallel life with secrets of its own, and she turns out to be far better at hiding things than she ever expected.

Edith's obsession builds at its own pace in this domestic psychological suspense, with no rush toward a reveal. The last thing she uncovers is worse than the affair she went looking for, and the book rests on what she decides to do next: whether the marriage goes on.