The Lying Game
A gripping psychological thriller where truth and lies collide from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10
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4.0 • 118 Ratings
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
IT ISN'T A GAME WHEN SOMEBODY DIES
The text message arrives in the small hours of the morning: I need you.
Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spent the most significant days of her life at boarding school on the marshes there, days which still cast their shadow over her.
Isa and her three best friends used to play the Lying Game, competing to convince people of outrageous stories. Now, after seventeen years of hiding the truth, something terrible has been found on the beach, and the friends' darkest secret is about to come to light...
‘I could not put this book down’ Reese Witherspoon
‘Surprising twists’ Daily Mail
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
When Isa Wilde, the narrator of this engrossing psychological thriller from bestseller Ware (The Woman in Cabin 10), gets a text "I need you" from old friend Kate Atagon, she knows she must drop everything in London and go to Salten, a town on England's south coast, where the two attended Salten House, a cut-rate boarding school. Doctor Fatima Qureshy and casino dealer Thea West, who also attended Salten House, receive the same message. At school, the four girls perfected what they called the Lying Game, with myriad rules and intricate scoring. An incident that caused the girls to leave before their senior year looms large as Isa, Fatima, and Thea gather at the house where Kate has always lived with her father, Salten's art master. Kate informs the group about a riverbank discovery a human bone that could unravel the foursome's 17-year pact of silence. Alternating between the past and present, Ware builds up a rock-solid cast of intriguing characters and spins a mystery that will keep readers turning pages to the end.
Customer Reviews
Lying game
Enjoyed it to start with then got bored with the book as there were just too many pages describing the feelings of the characters, too much of the same type of thing just described in a different way.
Fabulous tale of enduring loyalty and love
So intriguing. Well written tale of enduring loyalty between four girls, through thick and thin. The story twists and turns right to the end.