For a brilliant detective and an avid mystery reader, truth really is stranger-and deadlier-than 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 mother-s murder. And unfortunately proved Kat-s father as the culprit. Ten years later Kat is still obsessed with the heroic criminologist. She-s also addicted to the bestselling novels inspired by Alik-s ingenious deductions-penned by the grande dame of whodunits, who-s a bit of a mystery herself. Kat has devoured them all. Even the one based on her father-s 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 Kat-s notorious past. Now, as fact and fiction and t
