House of a Thousand Lies

Perfect for fans of Julia Heaberlin’s We Are All the Same in the Dark and Megan Collins’s The Family Plot, Cody Luke Davis’ debut psychological thriller brings a sinister serial-killer tale to life with hair-raising twists and chilling turns.

How far will some families go to protect their legacy?
 
Diana Wolf likes to think she has it all: a rock god husband, an empty nest, a wine cellar, and a dream home in the woods. Life is good. It has to be. But when she hires a cartographer, Kerry Perkins, to survey and map her estate in rural Tennessee, she pulls back a frayed corner of the lie that is her fairytale life. On his first night at Wolf Hollow, Kerry stumbles across a young girl's skeleton buried in the woods. But what really scares Diana is a familiar symbol carved into the girl’s skull: two wolves.
 
A week later, the cops are digging in her backyard. Diana begins to question how good her life really is. How good of a man is her husband and how good a father? She’s not the only one with questions. Kerry Perkins can’t shake what he saw in the woods that night. He suspects that Diana recognized that symbol, that she lied to the police; that someone is watching him, and that whoever it is, they desperately want him to keep his mouth shut.
 
His search for answers leads him to Pink, a deeply disturbed man obsessed with the Wolfs’ celebrity. Pink knows the family better than they know themselves—and he knows that the more he and Kerry dig, the more bones they will find.
 
Told through the eyes of multiple narrators, none reliable, this is a story about parents, the lies they tell their children, and the lies they tell themselves.Praise for House of a Thousand Lies:
“Dark and gritty . . . Exceptional.”
—Manhattan Book Review

“[A] superb debut . . . Works rather well as both a serial killer thriller and a novel of psychological horror.”
—Gumshoe Review

“House of a Thousand Lies is an exceptional debut novel, harrowing and heartbreaking and beautifully written. The intricate and compelling plot will propel you forward while the depth of each character will force you to linger.”
—Lou Berney, Edgar Award-winning author of November RoadCody Luke Davis previously worked in books-to-film at CAA and The Story Factory. He lives in his native Los Angeles with his wife and two rescue pitbulls.