Two Perfect Lies
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- Expected 17 Mar 2026
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- 75,00 kr
Publisher Description
The first lie made Lily a savior. The second framed Clara for murder.
If it weren't for Lily, Clara would still be a total outcast, shunned for her role in an incident that gave her a criminal record and ruined another girl's life. She's spent the past two years trying to escape that night, and ever since Lily Dalton befriended her, she's almost succeeded. After all, Lily's the golden girl of the high school—smart, popular, beloved by all—and as her best friend, Clara's now the bright, hard-working chemistry whiz.
But is Lily really just the good-hearted friend who saved Clara from the past? Because lately Lily has been talking about certain classmates and teachers—about wanting revenge. Do you ever think about making them pay? she asks. How would you do it? Lily has to be joking. At least that's what Clara thinks, until she finds a folder that outlines a deadly plan, including detailed steps and a list of targets in their school.
Shockingly, there's even more to Lily’s plan, and it has everything to do with Clara. After all, everyone already knows what she did two years ago. Suddenly all the evidence has been turned against her, and there's no way she can prove her innocence. And the people on that list of targets? One after the next, they’re meeting terrible fates, and Clara’s looking guiltier by the second. It's up to Clara to find the truth and clear her name, before it's too late.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Lightning-quick pacing results in rapidly building, unrelenting suspense in this deftly crafted thriller of friendship, betrayal, murder, and romance by Richards (49 Miles Alone). Seventeen months before this book's start, Ohio high school junior Clara Cutler is arrested for breaking and entering. If it wasn't for her 17-year-old best friend Lily Dalton, Clara would be doomed to life as a social pariah. As "that rare triple-crown student with the right grades, right attitude, and right social group," though, Lily commands respect and authority wherever she goes. But when Clara finds a list of names among Lily's belongings—including corresponding license plate numbers and recipes for explosives—Clara worries that Lily is up to something sinister. Sudden radio silence from Lily prompts Clara to seek help from school administrators, but before she can relay what she found, Clara is arrested—and she learns that Lily is framing her for attempted murder. As Clara struggles to prove her innocence, she's repeatedly thwarted by Lily. While some character motivations are never made clear, the novel's increasingly tense ambiance ensnares readers' attention, keeping the audience on the edges of their seats and surprising at every turn. Clara and Lily are white. Ages 14–up.
