Lies She Told
A Novel
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3.9 • 43 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB SELECTION
Truth can be darker than fiction in this “suffocating double nightmare” of a novel within a novel, from the USA Today–bestselling psychological thriller author of The Widower’s Wife (Kirkus Reviews).
“An eerie and chilling read . . . Unexpected and explosive.” —New York Journal of Books
Liza 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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Manhattan author Liza Cole, the protagonist of this engrossing psychological thriller from Holahan (The Widower's Wife), is under pressure from her editor, Trevor, to write a romantic suspense novel that will get her back on the bestseller lists. In the past, Trevor has settled for a rough idea; now he wants an outline. On the personal side, Liza and her lawyer husband, David, are trying to conceive a baby, and their sex life has suffered. In addition, David's best friend and law partner, Nick Landau, has been missing for a month and is almost certainly dead. Over the next month, as her deadline approaches, Liza draws on her suppressed emotions and memories to create the heroine of her new book, Beth, a young mother who suspects her husband of being unfaithful. Beth's story line soon takes turns that echo sinister developments in Liza's own life. Holahan keeps the suspense high by leaving it unclear who's telling the truth and who's lying until the surprising denouement.)
