In 1996 Seattle, grief and grunge collide with a twenty-year-old secret.

After her best friend Tess dies under suspicious circumstances, sixteen-year-old Wren Carmichael is still struggling through the fog of loss when a mysterious cassette tape arrives—recorded in Tess’s voice. The message is cryptic, the clues fragmented. But they point to something Wren never expected: a cold case from 1976, a missing girl named Lucy Kestrel, and a thread that connects Lucy’s disappearance to Tess’s death.

Wren has three weeks to follow the tapes to the truth. She’ll find Lucy’s bones, a wire taped under a sweater, and the last good lie a man can tell before the truth comes for him.

Set against the backdrop of Seattle’s music scene—a city still raw from grief of its own—The Last Good Lie is a taut, emotionally charged mystery about friendship, obsession, and the long shadow of the past.

Perfect for fans of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, The Lovely Bones, and We Were Liars.