The Lies He Told by Keogh Valerie

Author:Keogh, Valerie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloodhound Books - crime, thriller and mystery
Published: 2021-07-25T16:00:00+00:00

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Dee

Dee Carter slept on and off, half-expecting the phone to ring or the doorbell to chime. Once, years before… she smiled as she remembered…Toby threw stones up at their bedroom window when she’d slept through the doorbell ringing. She’d opened the window and seen him there smiling in the moonlight and her aching heart had, once again, forgiven him for straying.

So many times. Twenty years of forgiving. Twenty years of defending her husband, defending her decision to stay with him.

Friends advised her to leave him. And Dee listened to them, listened to their words, saw their happy, solid marriages, their lovely husbands… their dull, boring, faithful husbands. It had been a toss-up then – stay with her errant, straying husband, drown in the magic when things were going well and soak up every last bewitching drop in the hope it would sustain her when he got bored and drifted – or leave him and be alone. Alone, because how could she ever replace Toby with a mere mortal.

Ava, their nineteen-year-old daughter, had left home as soon as she was old enough, sick of the constant dramatics, tired of her mother’s tears and her father’s promises. She was living in Aberdeen and rarely came home.

Maybe Dee would go and visit her. Tell her it was finished between her and Toby at last.

She rolled over in the bed and buried her face in her pillow. She couldn’t leave Croydon. Not yet. It would take time for reality to sink into the brain she’d coated in platinum years before.

Reality. She’d never been too good at facing it. Now she didn’t have to. Now she didn’t have to face the truth that Toby wasn’t coming home to her. She thought he’d get tired of that Streatham woman, Babs, and it seems he had. Only he’d not returned to her, he’d moved on to richer pickings, then on again when a better opportunity presented itself.

Moved on to someone more suitable than his dull wife.

Someone more exciting, maybe someone dangerous.

Dangerous. The police appeared to have no idea what had happened to Toby but Dee was convinced of two things.

Toby was dead. He had to be, because in all the years of his philandering he’d never been out of contact for more than a day.

And if she was right, Dee was convinced that one of the women he’d been involved with had something to do with it.

Dee had worked for the same company for fifteen years so when she rang that morning to say there was a family emergency she wasn’t surprised to be told to take as much time as she needed.

As much time as she needed to find out what had happened to the man she loved.

And which of the women Toby had found so fascinating was to blame.

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