num_pages: 272
description: Sergeant Hamish Macbeth is alarmed to receive a report from a woman in the small village of Cronish in the Scottish Highlands. She has been brutally attacked and the criminal is on the loose. But upon further investigation Hamish discovers that she was lying about the crime. So when the same woman calls him back about an intruder he simply marvels at her compulsion to lie. This time though she is telling the truth. Her body is found in her home and Hamish must sort through all of her lies to solve the crime.
language: English
title: Death of a Liar
publisher: Grand Central Publishing