{"id":417,"date":"2020-07-01T11:59:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T17:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.camdenparkpress.com\/laurynchristopher\/?p=417"},"modified":"2021-03-31T13:47:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T19:47:58","slug":"secrets-and-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.camdenparkpress.com\/laurynchristopher\/secrets-and-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Secrets and Lies&#8221; &#8211; a short story collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/LaurynC-SecretsLies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.camdenparkpress.com\/laurynchristopher\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/cover-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Secrets and Lies - cover\" class=\"wp-image-418\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.camdenparkpress.com\/laurynchristopher\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/cover-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.camdenparkpress.com\/laurynchristopher\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/cover-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.camdenparkpress.com\/laurynchristopher\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/cover-768x1153.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.camdenparkpress.com\/laurynchristopher\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/cover-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.camdenparkpress.com\/laurynchristopher\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/cover-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.camdenparkpress.com\/laurynchristopher\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/cover.jpg 1466w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Just for kicks, I thought I&#8217;d gather up a few of my short stories and put them into a collection for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/LaurynC-SecretsLies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Secrets and Lies (opens in a new tab)\">Secrets and Lies<\/a><\/em><\/strong> includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Lemonade and Larceny<\/strong><br><em>When a silly law forbids Effie Birmingham from practicing her trade as a psychic, she feels obliged to break it!<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>A Little Casual Blackmail<\/strong><br><em>Eavesdropping on the neighbors escalates from entertainment to entrepreneurship\u2026<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>The Goddess Killer<\/strong><br><em>A serial killer forces Tommy to choose which of the women in his life \u2013 his mother, his wife, or his daughter \u2013 he loves the best, and which will die.<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>The Man in the Gabardine Suit<\/strong><br><em>Who was the &#8220;man in the gabardine suit&#8221; from the Simon &amp; Garfunkel song? Why was he on that bus in the first place?<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Mistletoe and Murder<\/strong><br><em>When the members of a highly dysfunctional family are snowed-in for the holidays, tempers flare, secrets are revealed, and someone\u2019s bound to die\u2026<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>Secrets and Lies<\/em><\/strong> <br>Available in print and ebook from your favorite retailer: <br><a href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/LaurynC-SecretsLies\">https:\/\/books2read.com\/LaurynC-SecretsLies<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just for kicks, I thought I&#8217;d gather up a few of my short stories and put them into a collection for you. Secrets and Lies includes: Lemonade and LarcenyWhen a silly law forbids Effie Birmingham from practicing her trade as a psychic, she feels obliged to break it! A Little Casual BlackmailEavesdropping on the neighbors &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.camdenparkpress.com\/laurynchristopher\/secrets-and-lies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Secrets and Lies&#8221; &#8211; a short story collection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,22],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cozy-capers","category-short-stories","tag-short-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rVMc-6J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.camdenparkpress.com\/laurynchristopher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.camdenparkpress.com\/laurynchristopher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.camdenparkpress.com\/laurynchristopher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.camdenparkpress.com\/laurynchristopher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.camdenparkpress.com\/laurynchristopher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.camdenparkpress.com\/laurynchristopher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/www.camdenparkpress.com\/laurynchristopher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.camdenparkpress.com\/laurynchristopher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.camdenparkpress.com\/laurynchristopher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.camdenparkpress.com\/laurynchristopher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}