Count My Lies
The addictive new domestic thriller and Good Morning America Book Club pick
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3.0 • 1 Rating
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- £7.99
Publisher Description
I'm your friend. But can you trust me? A voice-driven, read-in-one-night suspense thriller coming to you in 2025.
* A Good Morning America March book club pick *
'Utterly intriguing, the pages turned themselves' LIZ NUGENT
‘This smart, original, twisty story had me gripped from the first to the last page. I just had to keep reading!’ LIANE MORIARTY
‘Utterly gripping and unputdownable' AMY TINTERA
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Sloane Caraway is a liar.
They are harmless lies, she tells herself, to make her own life a bit more interesting.
So when she sees a child in tears in a playground one afternoon, she tells the girl’s (very attractive) dad she’s a nurse and helps him pull a bee sting from his daughter’s foot.
With this lie and chance encounter, Sloane becomes the nanny for Jay and Violet Lockhart who have everything: a beautiful brownstone house, a daughter in private nursery school, and long summers on an idyllic island just off the coast of New York.
Sloane wants to be just like them. She wants their life and she’s prepared to lie about almost
everything to get it.
But Sloane isn’t the only one lying, and soon she begins to realise that all that’s picture-perfect about her employers hides a much more dangerous truth . . .
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Praise for Count My Lies
‘Readers will find themselves racing through the final, jaw-dropping pages, desperate to gather every last clue of this astonishing web of lies’ KATY HAYS
‘Get ready for a rollercoaster of twists’ LIV CONSTANTINE
'Sophie Stava masterfully weaves suspense, deception, and heart into a brilliant, twisty thriller that keeps you guessing until the very last page.' TRISHA SAKHLECHA
Readers are loving Count My Lies:
'So addictive' 5-star reader review
'Jaw dropping' 5-star reader review
'Thrilling' 5-star reader review
'I couldn't put it down' 5-star reader review
'Twisty, and absorbing novel' 5-star reader review
'Just when you think the big twist has happened, there’s another, and another, and another!' 5-star reader review
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Stava's devilishly plotted if somewhat far-fetched debut, a seemingly chance encounter with a wealthy man in a Brooklyn park transforms a young woman's life. Toiling in an upscale nail salon after being fired from her preschool teaching job, Sloane Caraway is desperate for change. When she bumps into the distractingly handsome Jay Lockhart one afternoon, she tells him she's a nurse named Caitlin and starts ingratiating herself with him and his wife, Violet. Soon, Sloane lands a full-time gig nannying the couple's daughter, Harper, in their multi-million dollar brownstone. Though workaholic Jay is seldom around, the charming Violet treats Sloane so warmly that the emotionally needy sitter starts to view her as the sister she never had. But Sloane's perception of what's actually going on proves dangerously far from reality. The Lockharts' marriage, it turns out, is less idyllic than it appears—and when it comes to lying, Sloane is punching way above her weight class. Though not every twist in the breakneck home stretch is believable, Stava keeps the pages turning. This is good fun.
