The Lies We Tell (The Undertaker's Daughter #2) by Debra Webb

The Lies We Tell

(The Undertaker's Daughter #2)

by Debra Webb

ebook, 384 pages

Published September 17th 2019 by MIRA

Goodreads synopsis:

Nothing hurts like the truth.

Doctor Rowan Dupont knows a serial killer is coming for her. Julian Addington has been waiting. Watching. And it’s only a matter of time before he strikes. But what Julian doesn’t know is that Rowan is ready for him. And more than anything she wants answers. How well did the depraved killer actually know her mother? And how many lies have been spun in the years since she took her own life?

Working alongside her childhood friend Police Chief Billy Brannigan, Rowan is determined to get to the bottom of her mother’s puzzling suicide once and for all—even if it means exposing an unsettling past. It certainly seems like her family’s Victorian funeral home has borne witness to more than one dark secret, but when a recent double homicide leads to an even grislier discovery, separating the truth from the lies might be the last thing Rowan does.

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4.5 Stars

This is the second book in the Undertaker’s Daughter series by Debra Webb.

Okay, I am going to tell you right from the beginning. Go and read book one first. This will make so much  more sense if you do. It is an on-going plotline that continued from the previous book. This can be read as a standalone but you have to get up to speed pretty fast on the backstory in order to make it all understandable.

I really enjoyed the dynamic between Rowan and Billy. They have these romantic feelings for each other but they fear if they take that next logical step that it might ruin their friendship forever. 

I didn’t really get a good feel for this Julian character. He felt like more of an outside threat that never seemed to make an appearance in the flesh than a real bad guy. And the other threats were sure abundant in this book. There is a point three-forths through when Billy finds Rowan missing and you can physically feel how ill this makes Billy feel. His head is reeling and he is truly scared for the woman he knows he loves. That is craft-full writing right there.

There are a whole bunch of subtle undertaker one liners that I found so fun and they snuck up on you during the intense moments of the story that you just had to laugh. I am surely going to read  book one and find out more of what I felt I missed by skipping this integral part of the plotline.

Great stuff. Definitely on the must read list!

I received this as an ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) in return for an honest review. I thank NetGalley, the publisher and the author for allowing me to read this title.