The Liar's House (Detective Gina Harte Book 4) by Carla Kovach is the fourth installment of a series focused on DI Gina Harte. This is a gripping thriller/police procedural that pulled me in immediately. This is the first of the series that I've had the pleasure to read, and it is fully successful as a stand-alone novel.

DI Gina Harte is called to investigate the murder of a young wife and mother following the woman's attendance at a 'swap' party, where spouses trade partners for an evening. While police investigate, a call comes in from a distraught woman who has just received a birthday card containing a nail clipping on what would have been her missing friend's 35th birthday. Samantha has been gone for seven years, and the polish on the clipping matches a colour that she favoured. But when the DNA from the clipping matches that of the recent murder victim, Harte and her team must scramble to find a connection between the two cases.

This is a fast-paced and twisty tale that will have you guessing right up until the final pages. I am intrigued enough to read more about the complex enigma that is DI Gina Harte.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for this ARC.

Great book with amazing characters and story line! I read as a first book for me and it was still really great!

Samantha has been gone, vanished off the face of the earth for seven years when her friend Diane receives a birthday card on what would have been Samantha’s 35th birthday. Inside the card is a fingernail painted in the same shade Samantha always wore. But forensic analysis shows the nail belongs to a different woman, a woman who has been murdered. Does this mean that Samantha is dead? And are there more victims? And why was the nail sent to Diane? Is she now the target of a killer? A tense read with a couple of surprises along the way

What an amazing thriller! Absolutely loved the storyline and the heroes. The writer spins a beautiful tale abd draws you in slowly but surely.