The Lying Game

Ruth Ware

Simon and Schuster, Jul 25, 2017 - Fiction - 384 pages

From the New York Times and #1 Globe and Mail bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10 and In a Dark, Dark Wood—a novel about the slipperiness of truth and the price of friendships.

“I need you.” Three small words that change everything.

Isa Wilde knows something terrible has happened when she receives this text from an old friend. Why else would Kate summon her and their two friends Thea and Fatima to the seaside town where they briefly attended school together seventeen years ago?

The four friends first met at Salten House boarding school, where they quickly bonded over The Lying Game, a risky contest that involved tricking fellow boarders and faculty with their lies. But the game had consequences, and the girls were eventually expelled after Kate’s dad, their beloved art teacher, mysteriously disappeared. Forever bound by their lies but needing to forget their past, they went their separate ways—Kate remaining in Salten while the other three left to start new lives in and around London.

Now reunited, Isa, Kate, Thea, and Fatima discover that their past lies had far-reaching effects and criminal implications that threaten them all. In order to protect their reputations, and their friendship, they must uncover the truth about what really happened all those years ago.

Atmospheric, twisty, with just the right amount of chill, The Lying Game will have readers at the edge of their seats, not knowing who can be trusted in this tangled web of lies.

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User Review  - tibobi - LibraryThing

The Short of It: School girls, up to no good. The Rest of It: The story alternates between the past and present. Isa, Thea, Fatima and Kate attended Salten, a boarding school for girls where they ...

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User Review  - indygo88 - LibraryThing

Isa Wilde spent one brief partial term at Salten boarding school. While there, she quickly befriended a group of three other girls. However, their time together was interrupted when some questionable ...

About the author

Ruth Ware worked as a waitress, a bookseller, a teacher of English as a foreign language, and a press officer before settling down as a full-time writer. She now lives with her family in Sussex, on the south coast of England. She is the #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail (Toronto) bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood; The Woman in Cabin 10; The Lying Game; The Death of Mrs. Westaway; and The Turn of the Key. Visit her at RuthWare.com or follow her on Twitter @RuthWareWriter.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Lying Game
• Author: Ruth Ware
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 2017
• ISBN: 1501151800, 9781501151804
• Length: 384 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological; Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense