A billion-dollar secret is missing. Everyone connected to it is lying-or dead.
A Seattle biotech firm loses a research drive worth half a billion dollars. Hours later, a man is found dead in a downtown motel. A second man is found beside him-alive, barely. The only person who can connect them has already vanished.
Fiona O'Dell. Brilliant. Beautiful. Empty behind the eyes. She works the city's private clubs the way a surgeon works a table-precise, unhurried, clinical. The men she chooses don't understand what she is until it's far too late. Some of them don't understand at all. They just stop coming home.
Mary Collier. Ninety years old. Sharp as a scalpel. Patient as death. Tech-savvy in ways no one expects. And she carries a gun bigger than she is.
Lee Stone. Former Seattle homicide. He walked away from the badge the day he stopped flinching at crime scenes. This case is the one that finds him anyway.
What begins as a missing-person investigation becomes something far worse. A trail of bodies across three cities. A killer fixated on a woman who may not be the one pulling the strings. A client lying about what was actually stolen.
Because the drive was never the whole story.
And the person they're chasing may not be the one they need to stop.
Some people don't leave evidence.
They leave damage.
For fans of Lisa Gardner, Karin Slaughter, and Gillian Flynn.
THE LAST LIE SHE TOLD is Book 4 in the A Path of Deception and Betrayal series.