<p><b>‘Fans of Jodi Picoult’s style will love how Diane Chamberlain writes’ – <i>Candis.</i></b><br><b><i><br>Big Lies in a Small Town</i></b><b>, by the internationally bestselling author Diane Chamberlain, is a sweeping novel about two women connected by a painting that holds many dark secrets.</b><br><br>North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher’s life has been derailed.

Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she finds herself serving a three-year stint in the North Carolina Women’s Correctional Centre. Her dream of a career in the arts is put on hold – until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will see her released immediately.

Her assignment: restore an old post office mural in a sleepy southern town. Morgan knows nothing about art restoration but, desperate to leave prison, she accepts. What she finds under the layers of grime is a painting that tells the story of madness, violence and a conspiracy of small-town secrets.<br><br>North Carolina, 1940: Anna Dale, an artist from New Jersey, wins a national contest to paint a mural for the post office in Edenton, North Carolina.

Alone in the world and desperate for work, she accepts. But what she doesn’t expect is to find herself immersed in a town where prejudices run deep, where people are hiding secrets behind closed doors and where the price for being different might just end in murder.<br><br>What happened to Anna Dale? Are the clues hidden in the decrepit mural? Can Morgan overcome her own demons to discover what exists beneath the layers of lies?</p>


Format Inbunden Omfång 400 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Pan Macmillan Utgivningsdatum 2020-02-06 ISBN 9781509808601