Georgie Brennan’s husband is dead.
State Of Lies
by Siri Mitchell
Thomas Nelson
August 2019
He went out one evening to pick up a part to fix the faucet in the kitchen and never returned. He was killed by a hit-and-run driver in a place he should not have been. She could not bring herself to go to the morgue to identify the body so she sent her father instead. There were several items missing from his personal belongings especially a knife that he always carried.
Georgia begins to hear strange noises in the crawl space beneath her house. Investigating the noise she finds his knife lodged between the rafters. She also finds a cryptic notebook in her husband’s writing in the backyard. Things starts to happen that she can’t explain like someone tried to run her off the road, she is being followed, and someone had been searching her house. She soon begins to question everything that she thought she knew. Then someone set fire to the house and she and her son barely escaped with their life. Someone wants her dead, but who and why.
Her four star general father is up for confirmation as Secretary of Defense and her son is struggling to come to terms with his father’s death. As she begins to interpret the cryptic notebook her husband had left she became involved in political intrigue that she was ill equipped to handle. Her husband was investigating what happened when her father, as a captain, was fighting in Desert Storm. It had something to do with the men that had served under him during this time. When she started talking to the men all die under mysterious circumstances.
Georgie received an email from her dead husband’s phone. What is going on? Her husband is dead, or is he? As she continues to investigate she begins to suspect that her hero father is a traitor. Lies and more lies. Does her mother know what her husband did? Has her whole life been based on lies?
Will Georgie go to the authorities and tell what she knows about her father? Will he be confirmed as Secretary of Defense or be exposed for who he actually is?
I thoroughly enjoyed the book and highly recommended.
Mary Asher, the Golden Reviewer, is a founding book blogger for BookGateway.com and has generously provided this review. She describes herself as “an 88 year young great-grandmother and an avid reader.”
This book was provided by the publisher for review.