02319cam a2200397 i 4500 873048043 TxAuBib 20230627120000.0 221108s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022053094 9781538750636 hardcover 1538750635 hardcover (OCoLC)1340739712 TXBRI eng rda TXBRI TxAuBib rda Baldacci, David, author. Simply lies / David Baldacci. First edition. New York : GCP, Grand Central, 2023. 418 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Mickey Gibson, single mother and former detective, leads a hectic life: juggling the demands of her two small children with the tasks of her job working remotely for ProEye, a global investigation company that hunts down wealthy tax and credit cheats. When Mickey gets a call from a colleague named Arlene Robinson, she thinks nothing of Arlene's unusual request for her to go inventory the vacant home of an arms dealer who cheated ProEye's clients and fled. That is, until she arrives at the mansion to discover a dead body in a secret room-and that nothing is as it seems. Not only does the arms dealer not exist but the murder victim turns out to be Harry Langhorne, a man with mob ties who used to be in Witness Protection. What's more, no one named Arlene Robinson works at ProEye. In the blink of an eye, Gibson has become a prime suspect in a murder investigation-and now her job is also on the line until she proves that she was set up. Before long, Gibson is locked in a battle of wits with a brilliant woman with no name, a hidden past, and unknown motives-whose end game is as mysterious as it is deadly. 20230627. Women detectives Fiction. Single mothers Fiction. Swindlers and swindling Fiction. Private investigators Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Psychological fiction. Mystery fiction. Novels. Fiction. TXBRI