Big Lies in a Small Town
Diane Chamberlain, 2020
St. Martin's Press
400 pp.
ISBN-13: 9781250087331
Summary
—North Carolina, 2018:
Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed.
Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, her dream of a career in art is put on hold—until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will get her released from prison immediately.
Her assignment: restore an old post office mural in a sleepy southern town. Morgan knows nothing about art restoration, but desperate to be free, she accepts. What she finds under the layers of grime is a painting that tells the story of madness, violence, and a conspiracy of small town secrets.
—North Carolina, 1940:
Anna Dale, wins a national contest to paint a mural for the post office in Edenton, North Carolina.
Living in New Jersey, alone in the world and in great need of work, she accepts. But what she doesn't expect is to find herself immersed in a town where prejudices run deep, where people are hiding secrets behind closed doors, and where the price of being different might just end in murder.
What happened to Anna Dale? Are the clues hidden in the decrepit mural? Can Morgan overcome her own demons to discover what exists beneath the layers of lies? (From the publisher.)