The Lying Room by Nicci French
Who is lying, and why? A woman walks into a room. She looks down and sees a murdered man. She doesn't call the police. In the throes of a passionate adulterous affair, Neve Connolly gets a cryptic text over breakfast. She assumes it's from her lover and after waving the kids and husband off to work, sets off on her bike to an assignation at his house. She gets there to find he has been brutally murdered. About to call the police, she panics. If she calls them, then she'll somehow be involved and inevitably her husband and judgemental teenagers will find out about her illicit affair. Disaster. So, what does she do? She attempts a forensic clean of the flat to remove all traces of her occupancy and relationship with Saul, the murdered man, of course! What else would she do? Then she leaves, dumping the black bin bag containing any incriminating evidence on her way. She can't find a poem she wrote for him or, annoyingly, a pair of her undies, which is irritating be...