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It's not at all obvious where the mystery, crime or serious wrong-doing is for quite a long while into Sabine Durrant's new novel, Lie With Me , but there are a lot of warning signs being flagged up in relation to its narrator Paul Morris. It's suggested early on that he's writing from a prison or a place of confinement, and to be honest, even though the reason isn't clear, you wouldn't be a bit surprised that he's going to end up there one way or another. There are plenty of reasons not to like Paul Morris, and he's not at all shy of telling you about his failings, his deficiencies as a person and his unending capacity for lying. But can we believe Paul and is he the only one lying? There are a lot of other strange occurrences and erratic behaviour in the people around him, but then it's hardly surprising that they might be suspicious of a guy who constructs such a tissue of lies around himself and his lifestyle. The author of a moderately successfu...