SIMPLY LIES
David Baldacci, Macmillan, $34.99
Baldacci is the master of entrapment. And before you’ve read very far, you realise that the techniques employed by his villains are the ones he uses to trap the reader. Mickey Gibson is a single parent with a three-year-old and a two-year-old. The father of these two toddlers has left for good. Gibson used to be a high-performing detective. Now she can no longer do the footwork, she must stay home, but she can do research. She’s working for a private firm which values her and pays well.
But, dear oh dear, she’s exposed and vulnerable. When a hooded figure is captured on camera delivering a phone on which a mysterious and very manipulative woman will issue suggestions that are really orders, then Gibson is frightened. We get to
