{"product_id":"where-the-truth-lies-a-novel","title":"Where the Truth Lies: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhere the Truth Lies is a tour de force of sinister mystery  sly comedy  grand cuisine  and incredible sexa sensual  sardonic  neo-Dickensian thriller in which a latter-day Alice careens through the seductive Wonderland of New York and Los Angeles in the dark heart of the 1970s.  This novel of intrigue speeds from one vivid setting to another  all of them factually real even as they are fantastically surreal: a clandestine club in Disneyland with a dazzlingly well stocked bar; a dizzying Shangri-La of a castle hidden away in Burbank; a drive-in movie theater nestled below the most chic streets of midtown Manhattan; an elegant table for four perched thirty thousand feet above the earth.  Written by Edgar  Tony  and Grammy Award winner Rupert Holmes (who first came to public attention in the mid-seventies as a singer and writer of story songs)  Where the Truth Lies will wine and dine you in wickedly whimsical company  all the while luring you into a labyrinth of ever-sharpening bends and darkening corners.  The tale is told by OConnor  a vivacious  free-spirited young journalist known for her penetrating celebrity interviews and bent on unearthing secrets long ago buried by the handsome showbiz team of singer Vince Collins and comic Lanny Morris. These two highly desirable men  once inseparable (and insatiable where women were concerned)  were driven apart by a bizarre and unexplained death that may have cast one of them as a murderer.  As the tart-tongued  eye-catching OConnor ventures deeper into this unsolved mystery  she finds herself compromisingly coiled around both men  knowing more about them than they realize and less than she might like  but increasingly fearful that she now knows far too much.  At once funny  frightening  delightful  and disturbing as it restores the opulent Hollywood and Manhattan of the seventies to their garish glory  Where the Truth Lies drops its veils like a giddy and voluptuous Salome who knows not what reward or punishment awaits her when she is at last naked. It is the work of a master storyteller and wit at the very top of his form.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946733432885,"sku":"ByrdShop_0679452206","price":32.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780679452201.jpg?v=1769963880","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/where-the-truth-lies-a-novel","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}