The Butcher and the Liar

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A haunting inventive and genre-blurring serial-killer tale...Woeppel's narrative dances nimbly between a coming-of-age story a ghost story a murder mystery and a dark exploration of trauma; somehow she manages to make all these different tones harmonize and create something fresh exciting and unexpected. -<em>Kirkus Review</em> Starred review</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(49 49 49 1)>Daisy Bellon thinks she may have buried her skeletons forever. </strong><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>But truth cuts to the bone.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(49 49 49 1)>At thirty-five Daisy runs a butcher shop in a forgotten corner of Chicago keeping her past locked away. But when an anonymous message arrives she's thrust back to the day her life split in two.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(49 49 49 1)>At nine years old Daisy meets Caleb Garcia a boy who makes her believe in the possibility of friendship and happiness. But that same night she stumbles upon her father dismembering a woman in their basement and becomes his unwilling apprentice sworn to keep his monstrous secrets. When the victim's ghost appears in Daisy's room she's bound to a haunting legac</span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>y. To endure</span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 255 1)> </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Daisy</span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(49 49 49 1)> weaves a web of lies clinging </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>to the light of Caleb's friendship while slipping deeper into the darkness of her father's shadow.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(49 49 49 1)>More than two decades later following the arrival of the mysterious message someone close to Daisy is brutally murdered in an all-too-familiar fashion. Forced to confront the truth about her family and herself Daisy must decide whether to let the darkness consume her-or to fight for love and redemption even if it means revealing everything she's tried to bury.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A haunting psychological thriller perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Butcher and the Liar</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> has mystery lovers and literary fiction readers on the edge of their seats.</span></p>