From the acclaimed author of Blood Orange, a dark new psychological thriller about the perfect mother, the perfect wife, the perfect family — and the perfect murder. In the playground it’’s the law of the jungle But at the school gate, there are no rules at all… When Sadie Roper moves back to London, she’’s determined to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. First, she needs to get her … up the pieces of her shattered life. First, she needs to get her daughter settled into a new school-one of the most exclusive in the city. Next, she’’s going to get back the high-flying criminal barrister career she sacrificed for marriage ten years earlier. But nothing goes quite as planned. The school is not very welcoming newcomers, her daughter hasn’‘t made any friends yet and the other mothers are as fiercely competitive as their children. Sadie immediately finds herself on the outside as she navigates the fraught politics of the school gate.
But the tide starts to turn as Sadie begins to work on a scandalous, high-profile case that’’s the perfect opportunity to prove herself again, even though a dangerous flirtation threatens to cloud her professional judgment. And when Liza, queen of the school moms, befriends Sadie, she draws her into the heart of the world from which she was previously excluded. Soon Sadie and her family start to thrive, but does this close new friendship prevent her from seeing the truth? Sadie may be keeping her friends close, but what she doesn’‘t know is that her enemies are closer still…
Dark, addictive and compelling, The Lies You Told is a compulsive psychological thriller from a master storyteller.
“An extremely well-written and unsettling novel . . . Full of intrigue and menace, it creeps up on you until that final explosive twist. A great read” — Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times author of The Silent Patient
“I read The Lies You Told in two days, barely able to turn the pages fast enough. It’’s spare and taut, the sense of wrongness building in chilling, skillfully written layers, with a jaw dropping last-line twist.” — Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of The Family Upstairs
e case that’’s the perfect opportunity to prove herself again, even though a dangerous flirtation threatens to cloud her professional judgment. And when Liza, queen of the school moms, befriends Sadie, she draws her into the heart of the world from which she was previously excluded. Soon Sadie and her family start to thrive, but does this close new friendship prevent her from seeing the truth? Sadie may be keeping her friends close, but what she doesn’‘t know is that her enemies are closer still…
Dark, addictive and compelling, The Lies You Told is a compulsive psychological thriller from a master storyteller.
“An extremely well-written and unsettling novel . . . Full of intrigue and menace, it creeps up on you until that final explosive twist. A great read” — Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times author of The Silent Patient
“I read The Lies You Told in two days, barely able to turn the pages fast enough. It’’s spare and taut, the sense of wrongness building in chilling, skillfully written layers, with a jaw dropping last-line twist.” — Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of The Family Upstairs
ss building in chilling, skillfully written layers, with a jaw dropping last-line twist.” — Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of The Family Upstairs
e case that’’s the perfect opportunity to prove herself again, even though a dangerous flirtation threatens to cloud her professional judgment. And when Liza, queen of the school moms, befriends Sadie, she draws her into the heart of the world from which she was previously excluded. Soon Sadie and her family start to thrive, but does this close new friendship prevent her from seeing the truth? Sadie may be keeping her friends close, but what she doesn’‘t know is that her enemies are closer still…
Dark, addictive and compelling, The Lies You Told is a compulsive psychological thriller from a master storyteller.
“An extremely well-written and unsettling novel . . . Full of intrigue and menace, it creeps up on you until that final explosive twist. A great read” — Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times author of The Silent Patient
“I read The Lies You Told in two days, barely able to turn the pages fast enough. It’’s spare and taut, the sense of wrongness building in chilling, skillfully written layers, with a jaw dropping last-line twist.” — Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of The Family Upstairs
e case that’’s the perfect opportunity to prove herself again, even though a dangerous flirtation threatens to cloud her professional judgment. And when Liza, queen of the school moms, befriends Sadie, she draws her into the heart of the world from which she was previously excluded. Soon Sadie and her family start to thrive, but does this close new friendship prevent her from seeing the truth? Sadie may be keeping her friends close, but what she doesn’‘t know is that her enemies are closer still…
Dark, addictive and compelling, The Lies You Told is a compulsive psychological thriller from a master storyteller.
“An extremely well-written and unsettling novel . . . Full of intrigue and menace, it creeps up on you until that final explosive twist. A great read” — Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times author of The Silent Patient
“I read The Lies You Told in two days, barely able to turn the pages fast enough. It’’s spare and taut, the sense of wrongness building in chilling, skillfully written layers, with a jaw dropping last-line twist.” — Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of The Family Upstairs
ss building in chilling, skillfully written layers, with a jaw dropping last-line twist.” — Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of The Family Upstairs
ss building in chilling, skillfully written layers, with a jaw dropping last-line twist.” — Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of The Family Upstairs
e case that’’s the perfect opportunity to prove herself again, even though a dangerous flirtation threatens to cloud her professional judgment. And when Liza, queen of the school moms, befriends Sadie, she draws her into the heart of the world from which she was previously excluded. Soon Sadie and her family start to thrive, but does this close new friendship prevent her from seeing the truth? Sadie may be keeping her friends close, but what she doesn’‘t know is that her enemies are closer still…
Dark, addictive and compelling, The Lies You Told is a compulsive psychological thriller from a master storyteller.
“An extremely well-written and unsettling novel . . . Full of intrigue and menace, it creeps up on you until that final explosive twist. A great read” — Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times author of The Silent Patient
“I read The Lies You Told in two days, barely able to turn the pages fast enough. It’’s spare and taut, the sense of wrongness building in chilling, skillfully written layers, with a jaw dropping last-line twist.” — Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of The Family Upstairs
ss building in chilling, skillfully written layers, with a jaw dropping last-line twist.” — Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of The Family Upstairs
York Times author of The Silent Patient
“I read The Lies You Told in two days, barely able to turn the pages fast enough. It’’s spare and taut, the sense of wrongness building in chilling, skillfully written layers, with a jaw dropping last-line twist.” — Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of The Family Upstairs
ss building in chilling, skillfully written layers, with a jaw dropping last-line twist.” — Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of The Family Upstairs
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This domestic thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat as you try to figure out what comes next. Tyce masterfully weaves together three storylines that all keep you guessing even as you can’t stop reading. Perfect for fans of Allison Brennan and Hank Phillippi Ryan.
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This was good! I decided to read this book on a bit of a whim. I hadn’t heard anything about the book or the author but I am always ready to give a thriller a try and I liked the sound of this one. Let me tell you that once I really got into the book, I was hooked and couldn’t wait to find out what was really going on. This was definitely an entertaining read.
Sadie has split from her husband and is back in London living in the home she grew up in. She did not have a good relationship with her mother, or really any relationship at all in more recent years, but her mother has left her the house under one condition. In order to stay in the home, Sadie’s daughter, Robin, must attend the elite school that Sadie attended as a child. Robin is a great student but Sadie and Robin don’t feel welcome at the school and the other mothers seem hostile at times. Eventually, everything changes and Sadie and Robin are suddenly part of the inner circle but should they trust anyone? On top of it all, Sadie is working a very complex case as a barrister which only adds to the stress of her situation.
I had no idea who I should trust in this book. The clique of mothers at the school was just horrible and I couldn’t understand why they were so unwelcoming towards both Sadie and Robin. The competitive attitude was rather extreme and there were questions about what kinds of things had happened to other students. I wanted to know what was going on with the case Sadie was working on and what was causing her marriage to fall apart.
I thought that the book was very well written. There are some short chapters spread throughout the book that show the reader a glimpse of the future so it quickly became apparent that things would fall apart before everything was over. There were so many things going on and I liked the way that we learn things at a perfect pace to keep the interest level high on every topic. This was one of those books that I found really hard to put down since it kept me guessing until the very end.
I would recommend this book to others. I thought that this was a very well-crafted thriller that had plenty of twists and turns that kept me guessing until the very end. I would definitely read more of this author’s work in the future.
I received a copy of this book from Grand Central Publishing.
Sadie can’t take much more. Her husband has pretty much kicked her out and has shown he no longer wants to be with her. That can only mean one thing, an affair. She has fled back across the ocean to London, back to her childhood home she hated. Her daughter has to start at a new school, the same Sadie went to, and did not like. And she has not worked in almost a decade, having been a stay at home mom and her old law firm has just informed her that they have no positions open or need for her services no matter how good she was before she left for the states.
Being the new person back in town, she can’t seem to do anything right. All the mom’s look down on her, her single parenting and that she does not seem willing to do parent volunteer things, and Robin is getting targeted at school. She also still has memories from her childhood that creep up and living in this horrid house does not help things.
When things come to blow at a school event, Sadie finally confronts the one mother and one line has made everything turn around. She is now accepted into their circle, Robin now has friends and her old friend has offered her a position on a high profile case. A teenager girl is accusing her teacher of having had a sexual relationship with her and they, as the defense need someone to fine tooth comb all social media, text, cell phone, and email records to see what they can prove.
But as Sadie digs into the case, and Robin becomes part of these other girls lives, things are not adding up to how they appear. There are whispers of a past murder. There is whispers of this teenage girl being a faker but yet something is irking Sadie… there’s something she can’t quite grasp but she knows is there, and an unexpected visitor shows up on her doorstep with quite the bombshell of what really had been happening.
Thank you to Grand Central Publishing for the free book, it was such a good thriller! Many twists, and story lines and you had no idea what was coming next. Very good read! I will be looking up Blood Orange to read as well.
Amazing ending. The book had twists and turns all the way through.I love the stories within the story brunging so many demotions to the characters.Overall a great read, I would definitely recommend it.