# Behind the Lie - Hardcover

by **Emilya Naymark** (Author)

**NYPD detective turned small town PI Laney Bird is in a fight to save lives--including her own--when an explosion of deadly violence at a block party exposes the crimes simmering underneath her neighborhood's peaceful façade.**

A transplant to the upstate New York hamlet of Sylvan, all Laney wants is a quiet life for herself and her son. But things rarely remain calm in Laney's life.  
When one neighbor, a Russian immigrant, is shot, and his Ukrainian wife disappears--along with Laney's best friend--at her neighborhood summer block party, Laney will need all her skills as a PI to solve a mystery that reaches far beyond her small town.

As people closest to Laney fall under suspicion, the local authorities, and her colleagues, question her own complicity. And then there's fifteen-year-old Alfie, her complicated, enigmatic son, obviously hiding something. Even as Laney struggles to bury evidence of her boy's involvement, his cagey behavior rings every maternal alarm.

Laney's personal life unravels as she's drawn into her friend's dark secrets, and she must ask herself: how far would a wife and mother go to keep her family from ruin? One woman's desperation is another's downfall, and with treachery blazing hot as the searing summer sun, Laney realizes she and Alfie are in danger and she must fight to save lives, her own and her son's included.

### Author Biography

**Emilya Naymark** is the author of the novel _Hide in Place_, book 1 in the Sylvan series starring PI Laney Bird. Her short stories appear in A _Stranger Comes to Town_, edited by Michael Koryta, _Secrets in the Water_, _After Midnight: Tales from the Graveyard Shift, River River Journal, Snowbound: Best New England Crime Stories 2017_, and _1+30: THE BEST OF MYSTORY_. When not writing, Emilya works as a visual artist and reads massive quantities of psychological thrillers, suspense, and crime fiction. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her family.

**Number of Pages:** 304

**Dimensions:** 1.1 x 9.1 x 6.4 IN

**Publication Date:** February 08, 2022

**Award:** Edgar Allan Poe Awards (2023)

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