Lying Next to Me

No matter what you see, no matter what you’ve heard, assume nothing.

Adam and Sophie Warner and their three-year-old daughter are vacationing in Washington State’s Hood Canal for Memorial Day weekend. It’s the perfect getaway to relax—and to calm an uneasy marriage. But on Adam’s first day out on the water, he sees Sophie abducted by a stranger. A hundred yards from shore, Adam can’t save her. And Sophie disappears.

In a nearby cabin is another couple, Kristen and Connor Moss. Unfortunately, beyond what they’ve heard in the news, they’re in the dark when it comes to Sophie’s disappearance. For Adam, at least there’s comfort in knowing that Mason County detective Lee Husemann is an old friend of his. She’ll do everything she can to help. She must.

But as Adam’s paranoia about his missing wife escalates, Lee puts together the pieces of a puzzle. The lives of the two couples are converging in unpredictable ways, and the picture is unsettling. Lee suspects that not everyone is telling the truth about what they know—or they have yet to reveal all the lies they’ve hidden from the strangers they married.Praise for Lying Next to Me

“Lying Next to Me is a clever, chilling puzzle of a tale. A riveting, sharp‑edged page‑turner, it’s Gregg Olsen’s best book yet.” —A.J. Banner, USA Today bestselling author

“A dark, claustrophobic thriller filled with twists and turns. A brilliant book.” —Caroline Mitchell, #1 international bestselling author

“In Lying Next to Me, [Olsen] has given us a first‑rate work of psychological complexity as well as a mystery that is full of twists and is quite a grabber.” —Popular Culture AssociationGregg Olsen is the #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, #1 Amazon charts, USA Today and Washington Post bestselling author of more than 30 books, including the Waterman & Stark Thrillers, the Detective Megan Carpenter series, the Nicole Foster series, and If You Tell, which was Amazon’s bestselling eBook of the year in 2020 and second bestselling book of 2021. His novels and nonfiction books have been translated into more than 30 languages, and he is an Edgar Award finalist for The Amish Wife and International Thriller Writers of America Thriller Award finalist for The Boy She Left Behind. An impassioned voice for victims and their families, he has made numerous television and radio appearances on national shows and networks, including Good Morning America, Dateline, 20/20, CBS Morning News, 48 Hours, Entertainment Tonight, Forensic Files, CNN, NPR, and MSNBC. He is a native of Seattle, but now lives in rural Washington State with his wife and two of the most misbehaved dachshunds ever to roam the earth. Visit him online at NotoriousUSA.com or on Facebook /GreggOlsenAuthor and @GreggOlsen on Instagram.