The Story They All Told

Everyone in Brackenmere tells the same story. Mara Venn knows that means someone taught it to them.Disgraced true-crime podcaster Mara returns home days before local locksmith Kel Arnot is convicted of murdering a young archivist. The blood in his van says he did it. So does Mara's immaculate neighbour, Celia Rook. Soon, half the town is repeating Celia's account word for word.Then forty-three seconds vanish from Mara's interview tape.A hidden recording places Mara at the murder scene. Another captures her confessing. With Kel facing a ruinous plea and Mara unable to trust her own damaged memory, she must enter the sealed passage between two neighbouring houses and uncover what happened during the hour everyone helped her forget.Because Brackenmere has already chosen its killer-and the perfect neighbour will destroy anyone who changes the ending.Dark, tense and packed with fair-play twists, The Story They All Told is domestic suspense for readers who love unreliable narrators, buried evidence and last-page revelations.