Lies She Told

Books | Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological

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Cate Holahan

A BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB SELECTIONFrom the USA Today–bestselling author of The Widower’s Wife comes an electrifying psychological thriller of love and deceit, where the truth can be darker than fictionLiza Cole, a once-successful novelist whose career has seen better days, has one month to write the thriller that could land her back on the bestseller list. Meanwhile, she’s struggling to start a family, but her husband is distracted by the disappearance of his best friend, Nick. As stresses weigh her down in her professional and personal lives, Liza escapes into writing the chilling exploits of her latest heroine, Beth.Beth, a new mother, suspects her husband is cheating on her while she’s home caring for their newborn. Angry and betrayed, she aims to catch him in the act and make him pay for shattering the illusion of their perfect life. But before she realizes what she’s doing, she’s tossing the body of her husband’s mistress into the East River.Then, the lines between Liza’s fiction and her reality eerily blur. Nick’s body is dragged from the East River, and Liza’s husband is arrested for his murder. Before her deadline is up, Liza will have to face up to the truths about the people around her, including her own. If she doesn’t, the end of her heroine’s story could be the end of her own.“Recommended for anyone who enjoys Paula Hawkins or Gillian Flynn, primarily because it’s better.” —Library Journal

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Author

Cate Holahan

Pages

288

Publisher

Crooked Lane Books

Published Date

2017-09-12

ISBN

1683312961 9781683312963

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"I hate not enjoying ARCs, but I am not a fan of this one. I'm going to do this without spoilers even though it's difficult. There are two stories in this book - one is the main character's story, and the other is a story written by the main character. I don't know how it will look in the final copy, but there were not any different fonts, chapter headings, etc. in the ARC to help the reader tell the difference between the chapters. It made things difficult. The stories have a lot of similarities, and it was sometimes confusing to keep up with whose story was whose. The book was quite slow until about halfway, and once the action started, it felt forced. Nothing about this story seemed natural - it was too planned out. I think if the book would have been one story, or if the character's book had just been one page at the beginning of the chapter (i.e. Fangirl & The Weight of Lies), it would have gone over much better. The end of this book was a whole bunch of random things thrown together. I did not like the direction this story went in. There was not enough information on some things, and too much information on some unnecessary things. This book was an excellent concept, and I would try another book by this author; this one just really wasn't for me. The main character writes "romance suspense", and this really seemed more like that than a thriller to me. It was a novel about babies and marriage disguised as a mystery. I think that's absolutely fine for a lot of readers, but it's not my vibe. Thank you to NetGalley, Crooked Lane Books, and Cate Holahan for the galley in exchange for an honest review."

Emily

"This lady is a written of a thriller but when she start confusing real life with her book. Well you start to believe the lies she’s making up. Trying to figure out what’s reality and what’s the fiction. Great book!"