Claire Douglas presents us with a solid twist on a police procedural with The Woman Who Lied. Told from several points of view, our main character is an author who is putting the finishing touches on the tenth book in a very successful police procedural mystery series. Emilia feels done with this series, despite her agent's pleading, and decides to kill off her beloved Detective Moody at the end of book ten. There are also chapters by a young woman named Daisy nearly twenty years go and another perspective as well. 

But things go sideways for Emilia when events from her books, including book ten that isn't even out yet, start happening in real life. She calls the police, who advise her to tighten up security at home and remain calm. It's probably no big deal. Of course, that's not the case and the events progress in severity. 

My quibble with this book is that it felt tedious and overwrought in the first half, but when a major twist occurred at 51% the pages started flying by and the writing was a better balance of descriptive and well paced. I would have liked a bit more character development for Emilia, but the characters did feel real enough for me to enjoy it. I predicted two of the major twists but not the final kicker, and I couldn't put this down for the second half so I'm calling it a win overall.