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Julian Arden writes atmospheric crime thrillers about disappearances, evidence, and the stories people build from both. His Avery Soren series follows an investigative analyst who reconstructs the final seventy-two hours before a person vanishes, and questions what the evidence actually proves. THREE LIES is the first novel in the Avery Soren series.

Julian Arden writes contemporary investigative crime thrillers with a psychological edge. His fiction focuses on disappearances, digital and physical evidence, human behavior, and the dangerous gap between what happened and what the evidence appears to say.

THREE LIES introduces Avery Soren, a former law-enforcement analyst whose specialty is reconstructing the final seventy-two hours before a person disappears.

Arden writes the Avery Soren series.

A former investigative analyst reconstructs a missing woman's final seventy-two hours and discovers that every piece of evidence can be true while the story it tells is completely false.

Three people saw Claire Harlow during the final seventy-two hours before she disappeared. All three say they didn't. All three are lying.

Claire's car is found above the Oregon coast. Her phone is inside. Her shoes are near the water. Everything points toward a woman who chose to disappear, or never meant to come back.

Avery Soren isn't convinced.

A former law-enforcement analyst, Avery specializes in reconstructing the final seventy-two hours before someone vanishes. Claire's timeline leads her to three frightened people, each hiding the truth about their last encounter with her.

But their lies aren't protecting Claire.

They're protecting themselves.

All three have something else in common: Second Harbor, the nonprofit Claire ran to help people escape stalking, abuse, and dangerous pasts. And someone has learned how to turn the fragments meant to keep them safe into a map for finding them.

As Avery separates what the evidence proves from the story everyone has built around it, one question becomes impossible to ignore:

What if the evidence isn't wrong, only arranged to make everyone believe the wrong thing?

THREE LIES is the first Avery Soren novel, an atmospheric investigative crime thriller about disappearances, hidden identities, and the dangerous gap between evidence and truth.