Count My Lies
A GMA Book Club Pick!
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- USD 14.99
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- USD 14.99
Publisher Description
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
SOON TO BE A HULU TELEVISION SERIES STARRING LINDSAY LOHAN AND SHAILENE WOODLEY
“The very definition of a page-turner! This smart, original, twisty story had me gripped from the first to the last page.” —Liane Moriarty, New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies
A read-in-one-night suspense thriller narrated by a compulsive liar whose little white lies allow her to enter into the life and comfort of a wealthy married couple who are harboring much darker secrets themselves. For the millions of us still chasing those gone girls, this is perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Lucy Foley, and Laura Dave.
Sloane Caraway is a liar.
Harmless lies, mostly, to make her self-proclaimed sad, little life a bit more interesting.
So, when Sloane sees a young girl in tears at a park one afternoon, she can’t help herself—she tells the girl’s (very attractive) dad she’s a nurse and helps him pull a bee stinger from the girl’s foot.
With this lie, and chance encounter, Sloane becomes the nanny for the wealthy and privileged Jay and Violet Lockhart—the perfect New York couple, with a brownstone, a daughter in private school, and summers on Block Island.
But maybe Sloane isn’t the only one lying, and all that’s picture-perfect harbors a much more dangerous truth. To say anything more is to spoil the most exciting, twisty, and bitingly smart suspense novel to come out in years.
The thing about lies is that they add up, form their own truth and a twisted prison of a world. And in Count My Lies, Sophie Stava spins an “utterly gripping and unputdownable” (Amy Tintera, New York Times bestselling author) thriller about the secrets we keep, and the terrifying dangers that lurk just under the images we spend so much time trying to maintain.
Careful what you lie for.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The truth is as elusive as it is deadly for the honesty-challenged nanny in this domestic thriller. When pathological liar Sloane Caraway sleazes her way into a sweet nanny job for Jay and Violet Lockhart, she believes she’s got it made. But she soon discovers that the wealthy New York family is harbouring deadly secrets. Ramping up the suspense—along with the falsehoods—debut novelist Sophie Stava expertly plays with our perception of what is true, who to trust, and who is really a victim in what turns into an increasingly perilous game of cat and mouse. As Sloane begins to unravel the incredibly tangled web she’s gotten herself into, Stava draws us deeper into the dangerous deceptions, kicking off a wild ride of intrigue that comes to include everyone in Sloane’s orbit. This breakneck thriller had us gasping for breath with each reveal and cheering the antiheroine on as she fights for the truth—and her life.
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.
