Compulsive, dark, witty, The Truth and Other Lies introduces an anti-hero to rival Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley.

Famous author, loving husband, generous friend-Henry Hayden is a delightful person to have around.

Or so it seems.

But when his lover, who is also his editor, reveals she is pregnant, his carefully constructed life threatens to fall apart. How can he tell his wife, Martha, the truth?

So Henry works out an ingenious plan worthy of one of his bestsellers.

But he makes a terrible mistake. And now all his secrets threaten to reveal themselves

—with deadly consequences.