4338.210 · July 29, 2018 AD
Two Sides of a Lie
Detective Sarah Lahey investigates a missing person. Gladys Cramer hides one. When their paths collide at a pristine Berriedale house, both women must navigate an afternoon spiralling toward chaos. Between flickering lights and broken windows, wine becomes both weapon and offering. Karl Jenkins loses control. Blood spills. Lies multiply. Through four chapters spanning two perspectives, discover what happens when desperation meets deception—and two women realise survival might mean becoming allies.
July 29, 2018. A house in Berriedale. Too many lies to keep straight.
Detective Sarah Lahey has just pulled over the same driver twice—once for erratic driving, once for texting behind the wheel. The woman is Gladys Cramer. The car belongs to Jamie Greyson, reported missing by his sister. Gladys claims she's heading to Jamie's house where he's cooking dinner. But her phone shows a 13-second call to Luke Smith—Jamie's partner, their primary suspect.
Who's actually home? Who's missing? The stories don't align.
Sarah and her partner Karl Jenkins follow Gladys to the address. What should be a simple welfare check becomes something far more complicated when Gladys arrives clutching wine, scrambling to explain why nobody's answering the door. The house is immaculate. Empty. Wrong.
Gladys knows exactly why. Now she's trapped—performing normality while secrets pulse behind closed doors, praying the detectives leave before everything unravels.
Four chapters. Two women. One afternoon where everything changes.
The question isn't who's lying—it's whether any of them are telling the truth.
