Lies the Dirt Keeps
AVAILABLE NOVEMBER !3, 2025
Buried memories will always resurface.
A woman returns to her backwater home in search of her missing sister. Instead, she unravels a dark secret covered up by local derelicts and even her own family.
Heidi Christopher's debut novel, Lies the Dirt Keeps, is a dark, gritty, southern gothic thriller perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn, KL Slater, and Shalini Boland.
She came home searching for her sister. What she uncovered could destroy them all. Lies the Dirt Keeps is a haunting, explosive thriller about guilt, memory, and the lies we tell to survive.
Johnna LaGrange photographs death for a living. But when she gets the call that her younger sister Ori has vanished from their hometown of Sweetwater, North Carolina, the decay she’s drawn to becomes chillingly personal.
Returning to a town that never forgave her for surviving, Johnna finds her family in tatters—her mother drowning in vodka, her brother partying like nothing’s wrong. Only Shannon, her ex-turned-detective, is willing to help.
But as they dig into Ori’s disappearance, buried memories start to surface—of the stepfather Johnna killed in self-defense and the darkness that’s lingered in the farmhouse ever since.
When people start dying, and Johnna wakes up with dirt on her hands and blood in her mouth, she begins to question everything—including her own mind.
But the truth is far worse than she ever imagined.
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The southern gothic psychological thriller by Heidi Christopher, Lies the Dirt Keeps, is available as a paperback, audiobook, and eBook.
You can find it in: Adult Fiction, Horror, Thrillers, Domestic Thrillers, Psychological Thrillers, Mystery, Suspense, Ghosts, or Crime.
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Sophie
Really enjoyed this book. It kept me intrigued, and I couldn't put the book down.
Mary Ryan
I really enjoyed this. There's several twists - the final one was a real WOW! moment. What a way to end!
Bev
The identity of the person responsible for the disappearance truly shocked me! Well done, Ms. Christopher!