From the bestselling author ofSix MinutesandThe Good Teachercomes a compelling family drama of marital secrets and family tensions set within an investigation of sinister unsolved killings.

‘One of my favourite Australian writers!Petronella McGovern consistently delivers smart, twisty page-turnersguaranteed to keep her readers coming backfor more!’Liane Moriarty

‘Compelling, contemporarycrime fiction at its best. McGovern fully captures the soul of an Australian small town overdue a reckoning.’RWR McDonald, author of the bestsellingNancy Business

A wife burning with resentment. A husband hiding the past. Their teenage daughter crusading for the truth. Who can we trust?

Theclose-knit communityof Kinton Bay is shocked whenfifteen-year-old Siena Britton makes a grisly discoverynear a cave in the national park. Siena believes it’s a skull from the town’sviolent colonial pastand posts a video which hits the news headlines.

But her parents, Meri and Rollo, think the skull is related to theirteenage partiesin theKilling Caveback in the 1990s. And a school mate who went missing then.

None of them foresees thedangersthat the discovery will create for their family. The dangers ofpast deceits, silences and liesthat have never been resolved.

The Liarsis a heart-stopping cocktail of family secrets, sinister unsolved disappearances and a community at war with itself.