House of a Thousand Lies

Perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects and Oyinkan Braithwaite's My Sister, the Serial Killer, Cody Luke Davis' debut psychological thriller melds a sinister Southern atmosphere with complex family dynamics, wrapped in searing social commentary.



How far will some families go to protect their image and legacy?

Diana Wolf likes to think she has it all: a rock god husband, an empty nest, a wine cellar, and a dream home in the woods. Life is good. It has to be. But when she hires a cartographer, Kerry Perkins, to survey and map her estate in rural Tennessee, she pulls back a frayed corner of the lie that is her fairytale life. On his first night at Wolf Hollow, Kerry stumbles across a dead girl buried in the woods. But what really scares Diana is a familiar symbol carved into the girl's skull: two wolves.

A week later, the cops are digging in her backyard and her nagging self-doubt returns for the first time in years. Diana begins to question how good her life really is. How good of a man is her husband and how good a father? She's not the only one with questions. Kerry Perkins can't shake what he saw in the woods that night. He suspects that Diana recognized that symbol, that she lied to the police; that someone is watching him, and that whoever it is, they desperately want him to keep his mouth shut.

His search for answers leads him to Pink, a deeply disturbed man obsessed with the Wolfs' celebrity. He knows the Wolf family better than they know themselves. He knows that the Wolfs have teeth, and claws, and horrifying secrets buried deep in the ground-and that the more Pink and Kerry dig, the more bones they will find.

Told through the eyes of multiple narrators, none reliable, this is a story about parents, the lies they tell their children-and the lies they tell themselves.