Anatomy of an Alibi
Ashley Elston follows First Lie Wins with a Louisiana thriller built on a twelve-hour identity swap that goes wrong in the worst available way. Two women trade places to catch one husband in a lie, and by morning he is dead with a single usable alibi between them. Anatomy of an Alibi is a fair-play puzzle wrapped around a very good con.
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A woman sits at the bar in Chantilly's with a Negroni she has no intention of finishing, in heels that cost more than her car, and every regular in the room has already decided who she is. They are wrong. Aubrey Price has twelve hours to be Camille Bayliss, and Ashley Elston spends the opening chapter letting you watch a stranger pull it off in a town where everybody knows everybody. Anatomy of an Alibi starts with the con already running. Good call. By the time the rules get explained, the reader is in on it. The arrangement fits on a napkin. Camille is married to Ben Bayliss, a lawyer with family money and a habit of always knowing where his wife is. She wants twelve unwatched hours to go through his business. Aubrey wants Ben, or rather she wants what he knows about a night ten years ago that took her life apart. So Aubrey wears Camille's life for a day while Camille goes hunting. Then Ben turns up dead and the whole elegant swap collapses into arithmetic. Two women, one verifiable alibi, and a sheriff's department that only has to choose.
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