Assume Nothing

For a brilliant detective and an avid mystery reader, truth really is strangerand deadlierthan fiction in a suspenseful and wickedly entertaining novel about the games killers play. In 1985, Kat McCann was six years old when renowned Austrian detective Alik Lisser solved her mothers murder. And unfortunately proved Kats father as the culprit. Ten years later Kat is still obsessed with the heroic criminologist. Shes also addicted to the bestselling novels inspired by Aliks ingenious deductionspenned by the grande dame of whodunits, whos a bit of a mystery herself. Kat has devoured them all. Even the one based on her fathers crime. When Kat and Alik fatefully cross paths again, a friendship evolves, and Alik is delighted to share the secrets of his success with such an eager and clever girl by inviting Kat to solve a murder of her very own. One that challenges everything Kat believes about the detective, an elusive author, and Kats notorious past. Now, as fact and fiction and truth and deception collide, its all Kat can do to survive the shocking twist ending to her own life story.