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Where the Truth Lies by Rupert Holmes

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Adapted into a major motion picture starring Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon!

From the New York Times bestselling author of Murder Your Employer comes Where the Truth Lies, a tour de force of sinister mystery, sly comedy, grand cuisine, and all-consuming desire—"a narcotically addictive thriller" (Esquire).

Kerry O'Connor, a vivacious, free-spirited young journalist known for her penetrating celebrity interviews is hell-bent on unearthing the long-buried secrets that irrevocably shaped the lives of the magnetic showbiz team of singer Vince Collins and comic Lanny Morris. Once inseparable (and seemingly insatiable), the two celebrities were driven apart by a young woman's bizarre and unexplained death, in which either might have been complicit.

As the tart-tongued, eye-catching O'Connor ventures deeper into this unsolved mystery, she finds herself compromisingly coiled around both men, knowing more about them than they realize and less than she might like, but increasingly fearful that she now knows far too much.

Where the Truth Lies confirms Rupert Holmes's status as one of the most ingenious writers of today, a Renaissance man who has succeeded in virtually every realm of the entertainment world: music, film, TV, Broadway, and fiction. As the Los Angeles Times observed, Holmes is "one of those gifted people who seem able to do anything they want with the English language."

Adapted into a major motion picture starring Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon!

From the New York Times bestselling author of Murder Your Employer comes Where the Truth Lies, a tour de force of sinister mystery, sly comedy, grand cuisine, and all-consuming desire—"a narcotically addictive thriller" (Esquire).

Kerry O'Connor, a vivacious, free-spirited young journalist known for her penetrating celebrity interviews is hell-bent on unearthing the long-buried secrets that irrevocably shaped the lives of the magnetic showbiz team of singer Vince Collins and comic Lanny Morris. Once inseparable (and seemingly insatiable), the two celebrities were driven apart by a young woman's bizarre and unexplained death, in which either might have been complicit.

As the tart-tongued, eye-catching O'Connor ventures deeper into this unsolved mystery, she finds herself compromisingly coiled around both men, knowing more about them than they realize and less than she might like, but increasingly fearful that she now knows far too much.

Where the Truth Lies confirms Rupert Holmes's status as one of the most ingenious writers of today, a Renaissance man who has succeeded in virtually every realm of the entertainment world: music, film, TV, Broadway, and fiction. As the Los Angeles Times observed, Holmes is "one of those gifted people who seem able to do anything they want with the English language."

  • Publisher: Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster

    Title: Where the Truth Lies: A Mystery

    Author: Rupert Holmes

    On Sale Date: September 15, 2026

    ISBN 13: 9781668234006

    ISBN 10: 1668234009

    Format: Hardcover

    Retail Price: $30.00

    BISAC: FICTION / Black Humor; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical

    Page Count: 400

    Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.3 in

    Weight: 1.26 lb

  • Rupert Holmes is that rare writer who has succeeded in nearly every corner of entertainment — as a Tony Award–winning Broadway composer (The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Curtains), a two-time Edgar Award winner, and a Billboard #1 recording artist behind "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)." Where the Truth Lies was his fiction debut, a Nero Wolfe Award nominee and Booklist Top Ten Debut Novel that was later adapted into a film starring Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon. He went on to write the musical mystery novel Swing and, more recently, launched the New York Times bestselling McMasters Guide to Homicide series with Murder Your Employer.

  • Critics and fellow bestselling authors are calling it witty, sexy, and suspenseful:

    • "Where the Truth Lies is a beguiling suspense novel. It's sexy and surprising, witty and intriguing. I was hooked from the very first page." — Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City

    • "Hugely entertaining . . . Witty, sexy, and suspenseful . . . A glittering ride." — Publishers Weekly

    • "Holmes, who has won honors galore for his inventive storytelling on Broadway, [delivers] a giddy fun-house ride through bygone eras." — The New York Times Book Review

    • "Literate, witty, and atmospheric." — Booklist (starred review)

This book is for you if

  • You want a witty, sexy mystery set deep in the show-business world of the 1970s.

  • You loved Murder Your Employer and want to go back to the novel that started Rupert Holmes's fiction career.

  • You're drawn to unreliable narrators and a journalist who gets in over her head.

  • You want a mystery smart enough to have earned a Nero Wolfe Award nomination.

  • You'd enjoy a story juicy enough that Hollywood turned it into a film starring Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon.

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