Lies. We’re surrounded by them.

From the moment we’re born to the moment we die.

All we can hope for, meanwhile, is to get by.

A story of murder, deception, and revenge set in Derbyshire’s Peak District, an area of isolated farms, close-knit villages, and festering secrets. Into this secluded world steps journalist Alice Myers at the invitation of DI Neil Hunter, who soon begins investigating deaths that look increasingly like murder. 

All the deaths seem linked to a serial killer, now serving a life sentence. A cat-and-mouse game unfolds for both Neil and Alice. Is a copycat at large? Who will be the next victim?

Drawn into a terrifying web of deceit, where nothing is as it seems and nothing can be taken at face value, Alice finally unearths a past more harrowing than she dares imagine: a nightmare journey deep into the mysteries of the human mind, where memories may be the most dangerous things of all.

In a fast-paced, explosive ending when the pieces of the puzzle fall into place with an unexpected and shocking revelation, uncovering what lies behind the deadly secrets may cost Alice her life.

Struggling to make sense of this fraught investigation, she faces her darkest fears in the hunt for a clever and callous killer who will stop at nothing....

False memories, false confessions, false accusations all come together in Derbyshire’s fabled yet treacherous Peak District in A Landscape of Lies. Latest in the popular, gritty Alice Myers psychological crime thriller series and the best yet!