“From the questions the woman detective asked when she interviewed Liza, I think the same thing,” Aubrey said grimly. “There is no way in the world they didn’t know what was going on under their roof.”

  “I agree,” I said, and on that angry note, we hung up.

  I heard later that Aubrey’s Christmas Eve service was very emotional, that many tears were shed, that despite the absence of Emily and Liza, who stayed home, it was a very touching event.

  I didn’t go. I couldn’t stand one more emotional passage. I thought maybe Liza just didn’t want all the attention.

  I’d never wrapped gifts on Christmas Eve before, or tried to imagine what I’d have for Christmas dinner the night before. I gave myself yards of slack, and we had a beautiful and peaceful morning after Phillip finally woke up on Christmas Day. We opened some presents. We enjoyed being together. My mother renewed her invitation to Christmas dinner but we turned that invitation down with little regret. None of us were in the mood for a barrage of questions, nor yet for ignoring what had happened the past few days. Ham and sweet potatoes out of a can and some traditional green bean casserole, plus biscuits, made a perfectly adequate meal, as long as we were together.

  “How’s the baby?” Phillip asked. “How are you feeling?”

  He seemed a little shy, as if there was something a little embarrassing about having a pregnant sister.

  “I feel so much better now,” I said honestly. “The doctor is going to check me over tomorrow, she’s coming into the office specially so I can have some peace of mind, but I think I’m right as rain.”

  “That’s what I want,” Phillip said. “I was scared—when I had any time to be scared of anything besides Clayton killing us—that you would be so upset that something would go wrong with the baby.”

  “I can’t believe you could spare the energy to think about me,” I said. “You had plenty to worry about.”

  He grinned. “Yeah, I did, didn’t I? But it’s like that play, All’s Well That Ends Well.”

  You couldn’t say it better than that.

  ALSO BY CHARLAINE HARRIS

  AURORA TEAGARDEN MYSTERIES

  Poppy Done to Death

  Last Scene Alive

  A Fool and His Honey

  Dead Over Heels

  The Julius House

  Three Bedrooms, One Corpse

  A Bone to Pick

  Real Murders

  LILY BARD MYSTERIES

  Shakespeare’s Counselor

  Shakespeare’s Trollop

  Shakespeare’s Christmas

  Shakespeare’s Champion

  Shakespeare’s Landlord

  SOOKIE STACKHOUSE / TRUE BLOOD NOVELS

  After Dead

  Dead Ever After

  Deadlocked

  Dead Reckoning

  Dead in the Family

  Dead and Gone

  From Dead to Worse

  All Together Dead

  Definitely Dead

  Dead as a Doornail

  Dead to the World

  Club Dead

  Living Dead in Dallas

  Dead Until Dark

  HARPER CONNELLY MYSTERIES

  Grave Secret

  An Ice Cold Grave

  Grave Surprise

  Grave Sight

  Cemetery Girl Trilogy (with Christopher Golden)

  Inheritance

  The Pretenders

  MIDNIGHT, TEXAS NOVELS

  Night Shift

  Day Shift

  Midnight Crossroad

  About the Author

  CHARLAINE HARRIS is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing for more than thirty years. Born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area, she is the author of the Aurora Teagarden mysteries, which are the basis for the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Aurora Teagarden original movies; the Sookie Stackhouse urban fantasy series, which was the basis for the HBO show True Blood; the Shakespeare mysteries; the Harper Connelly mysteries; and the Cemetery Girl mysteries. Harris now lives in Texas with her husband. You can sign up for email updates here.

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  Contents

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Acknowledgments

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen

  Also by Charlaine Harris

  About the Author

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

  ALL THE LITTLE LIARS. Copyright © 2016 by Charlaine Harris. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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  Cover design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein

  Cover illustration and handwritten type © Lisa Desimini

  The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.

  ISBN 978-1-250-09003-4 (hardcover)

  ISBN 978-1-250-09005-8 (e-book)

  e-ISBN 9781250090058

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  First Edition: October 2016

 


 

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