Lying Tongue

When young History of Art graduate Adam Woods takes a job in Venice as assistant to the aging, reclusive bestselling writer Gordon Crace, he becomes obsessed with the idea of writing his biography. But Adam does not expect the uncanny similarity between himself and Crace's former tenant, who died in mysterious circumstances decades earlier.When Adam discovers that there is a rival who intends to write the book of Crace's life and that another mysterious person is blackmailing Crace, he leaves the murky canals of Venice for his home in London, and the hallowed halls of a great English public school in Dorset, to try and unravel the secrets of his subject's past. It is then that we get the uncomfortable sense that Adam isn't all we think he is..."The Lying Tongue" is a deeply atmospheric story of one person's delusion and another's dark past. At once a tense thriller and gothic psychological horror, it will grip you until its shocking climax.