In rain-drenched Vancouver, detectives Dion and Leith work to separate truth from lies in two seemingly unrelated cases.

February is the month of romance, but in North Vancouver it’s also become the month of murder. While the North Shore RCMP slog through the rain in the search for whoever left a young woman to die in the Riverside Secondary School parking lot — their first clue a Valentine’s Day card — a toddler mysteriously vanishes from a Riverside Drive home in the midst of a dinner party.

With Constable JD Temple's full attention on the parking lot murder, Constables Dave Leith and Cal Dion work the kidnap … until a tenuous connection is made between the two cases, along with the thinnest ray of hope that the child could be alive and well in the hands of a childless couple. But when more tragedy rains down on the North Shore, lies must be unveiled before the ugly truth can emerge.

[River of Lies] is an absolute page-turner for anyone who loves a rich crime mystery full of twists and turns to the very end...R.M. Greenaway is a master of criminal intrigue. * The Ormsby Review *
[R.M. Greenaway] has created a couple of cops who stand out in a crowded crime fiction field for their absorbing personas. * Kingston Whig-Standard, for Flights and Falls *
Greenaway’s chilling fifth entry comes with twists galore and serves as another worthy addition to her B.C. Blues Crime tales and, as a standalone, a gripping Canadian crime procedural. * Suspense Magazine *

R.M. Greenaway has worked in probation and travelled British Columbia as a court reporter. Her first novel in the B.C. Blues Crime series, Cold Girl, won the Unhanged Arthur Ellis Award. She lives in Nelson, B.C.