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A Killer Secret
A Killer Secret
A Killer Secret
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Would you kill to keep a secret?

That's the question haunting three people whose lives become inescapably intertwined by the secrets that define them and ultimately threaten to tear them apart. 

A disgraced professor, a disenchanted psychologist and a deceitful patient are about to learn more than they expected about each other and themselves. Will their relationships survive their secrets? Will they? 

Everyone has secrets. 

Some are just darker than others. 

And some, well, they're worth killing to keep. 

"A Killer Secret," the debut novel by Jeff Berney, is a character study in good and evil, and the large swath of gray area in between where most of us live. That is, unless our secrets kill us first.

Initial Reader Reactions:

"Really enjoyed the book (in a twisted thriller kind of way). I was shocked multiple times and couldn't sleep for a few nights after reading the end."

"So many twists and turns … absolutely did not see that ending coming!" 

"The craft in the detailing is really well done."

"DAMN!! You can really write. Honest to God you have it." 

"I see some Stephen king influence in your wordsmithing. I'm hooked." 

"A Killer Secret is a real page-turner with plot twists that keep the reader guessing right up to the very end. The author's style of writing is fluid and easy to read. The story is intriguing and fascinating at every turn. I thoroughly enjoyed it! I am looking forward to reading his next book."

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Release dateDec 27, 2019
ISBN9780578615424
A Killer Secret
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Jeff Berney

Jeff has been living in his head since 1974, so it wasn’t much of a jump for him to live in his characters’ heads. And after more than 20 years as an advertising writer, he decided he’d sleep better writing stories that keep people up at night.  He lives with (and for) his amazing wife, six of his seven rambunctious children, two doodles, and two cats, as well as the occasional fish or rabbit.

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