Sweet Little Lies – Caz Frear                                                                                           (Debut)

Meet Cat , a 26 year old detective with the London police.

18 years ago, a teenage girl, MaryAnne, disappeared and Cat was sure her father had something to do with MaryAnne’s disappearance. Now 8 years later, a young woman is found dead near her father’s bar.  Cat’s suspicions are brought back to the surface because the dead woman seems to have a possible link to the missing MaryAnne.

Was her father involved 8 years ago?? And is he involved now?? What is he hiding??  Cat is not sure she wants to find out.

The book kept my interest and the story line is different.  A good read.

Goodreads summary: In this gripping debut procedural, a young London policewoman must probe dark secrets buried deep in her own family's past to solve a murder and a long-ago disappearance.

Your father is a liar. But is he a killer?
Even liars tell the truth... sometimes.

Twenty-six-year-old Cat Kinsella overcame a troubled childhood to become a Detective Constable with the Metropolitan Police Force, but she's never been able to banish these ghosts. When she's called to the scene of a murder in Islington, not far from the pub her estranged father still runs, she discovers that Alice Lapaine, a young housewife who didn't get out much, has been found strangled.

Cat and her team immediately suspect Alice's husband, until she receives a mysterious phone call that links the victim to Maryanne Doyle, a teenage girl who went missing in Ireland eighteen years earlier. The call raises uneasy memories for Cat--her family met Maryanne while on holiday, right before she vanished. Though she was only a child, Cat knew that her charming but dissolute father wasn't telling the truth when he denied knowing anything about Maryanne or her disappearance. Did her father do something to the teenage girl all those years ago? Could he have harmed Alice now? And how can you trust a liar even if he might be telling the truth?