Publication Date: August 21, 2026
She’s writing your story. She knows your secrets. She’ll kill to keep them.
Alani Fairchild just landed her dream job. Isabelle Croft wants Alani to write her memoir, revealing all about her star-studded life as an actress and spilling the secrets that bind her picture-perfect family. And she will pay Alani whatever it takes to make her say yes.
Gravel crunching beneath her sneakers, Alani pretends not to see Isabelle watching her from an upstairs window of her beachfront home. Something tells her she’s made a terrible mistake. But it’s too late now as she’s welcomed inside by perfectly manicured hands and cold gray eyes.
Perched on a silk sofa, Alani begins to write as Isabelle opens up about her marriage and struggles with fame. But when talk turns to the night of the birth of Isabelle’s first child, Alani feels the room spin. The hospital. The storm raging outside. All the same sketchy details Alani’s parents described about the night she was born… Everything in Alani’s body tells her to run. But she knows she needs to stay if she wants answers.
When Alani wakes on the floor days later, with a knife in her hand and blood on her clothes, nothing will prepare you for the twists in Isabelle and Alani’s deadly story…
An absolutely jaw-dropping psychological thriller from bestselling author, D.K. Hood. Fans of Freida McFadden, Jeneva Rose and Colleen Hoover will be hooked!
Alani Fairchild makes a living ferreting out other people’s secrets as a ghostwriter for the rich and famous.
Intimately aware of how devastating a secret can be, actress Isabelle Croft wants to carefully control her own memoir. Author D.K. Hood sets the stage for a psychological thriller full of twists in Tell Me Your Lies.
All the pieces fall into place for an explosive storyline in which money seems to be the solution to everything, except turning back the clock. However, the family secrets Isabelle has been protecting—the things Alani wants to reveal to boost sales—may need to stay hidden.
The twists throughout the story, especially eerie occurrences connecting to Alani’s own dark secret, keep the suspense at a high level.
Tell Me Your Lies delivers a master sleight of hand with an unexpected—yet incredibly satisfying—dramatic conclusion.
D.K. Hood is THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, USA TODAY and AMAZON bestselling author of the Detective Kane and Alton Series. Her spine chilling, fast-paced serial killer thrillers revolve around Sheriff Jenna Alton and her ex-special forces Deputy, Dave Kane. As the main characters fight crime, their secret pasts are never far away. Set in and around the fictional backwoods town of Black Rock Falls, Montana, known locally as Serial Killer Central, D.K.’s imagery takes the reader into the scenes with her. Given the title “Queen of Suspense” by her reviewers, D.K.’s writing style offers her readers a movie style, sizzling fast thrill ride.
