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The Lying Game: The unpredictable thriller from the bestselling author of THE IT GIRL Kindle Edition

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'I could not put this book down' Reese Witherspoon'

IT ISN'T A GAME WHEN SOMEBODY DIES

The text message arrives in the small hours of the morning: I need you.

Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spent the most significant days of her life at boarding school on the marshes there, days which still cast their shadow over her.

Isa and her three best friends used to play the Lying Game, competing to convince people of outrageous stories. Now, after seventeen years of hiding the truth, something terrible has been found on the beach. The friends' darkest secret is about to come to light...
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Praise for THE LYING GAME:
'Atmospheric, mysterious, gripping' Marian Keyes
'Surprising twists' Daily Mail
'Another heart-stopping belter of a thriller from an epic talent' Heat
'A gripping, unpredictable narrative that shifts like sand underfoot' Erin Kelly

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15 June 2017
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"Atmospheric, mysterious, gripping." Marian Keyes on THE LYING GAME "Ruth Ware is one of the best suspense writers out there and The Lying Game is her strongest book yet. A gripping, unpredictable narrative that shifts like sand underfoot, and a plot that turns like the tide." Erin Kelly, bestselling author of HE SAID, SHE SAID "Cancel your plans for the weekend when you sit down with this book, because you won't want to move until it's over." Kirkus, Starred Review "Ruth Ware has done it again! In this exceptional thriller, we are in marshland, where nothing is certain and the deadly secrets we kept with our best childhood friends may be about to resurface. Intriguing to the very last page, this is a superb exploration of friendship, family and a page-turning top-notch mystery that is guaranteed to keep you reading into the wee small hours. I loved it!" Liz Nugent, bestselling author of LYING IN WAIT "There can be no complaints about the fizzy present-day narrative, with the interplay between the women particularly well-handled." -- John Dugdale The Sunday Times

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Four friends. One promise. But someone isn't telling the truth. The twisting new mystery from bestselling phenomenon Ruth Ware.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01M13HH5M
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage Digital (15 June 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4051 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 372 pages

Best Sellers Rank: 17,284 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 671 in Literary Fiction (Kindle Store)
- 677 in Psychological Thrillers (Kindle Store)
- 692 in Serial Killer Thrillers

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Ruth Ware is an international number one bestseller. Her thrillers In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, The Death of Mrs Westaway, The Turn of the Key, One by One and The It Girl have appeared on bestseller lists around the world, including the Sunday Times and New York Times, and she is published in more than 40 languages. She lives on the south coast of England, with her family.

Visit www.ruthware.com to find out more, or find her on facebook or twitter as @RuthWareWriter

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judes

Keep going!

Reviewed in Australia on 28 January 2018

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A good yarn that takes a little while to break into. A beautiful setting conjured up well for the many twists and seemingly dead ends it holds. Worth finishing.

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Heidi (but books are better)

Extremely compelling read

Reviewed in Australia on 29 November 2017

There is no friendship as intense as when you’re fifteen. Isa, Thea, Fatima and Kate were inseparable at boarding school, a tight closed unit, invincible in the company of each other. At first their game seemed like innocent fun – the Lying Game, invented by Kate and Thea to prove that they could get away with anything, make people believe what they wanted them to. Until it went too far and was no longer a game. Seventeen years later, one lie is still haunting them, threatening to destroy their lives ....

Ruth Ware has come through for me again, with another fantastic read. After really enjoying The Woman in Cabin 10, this book has been on my wishlist ever since I spotted it on Goodreads. I’m glad to say my little happy dance on receiving it was fully warranted! Within the first two pages, the author had set a scene so vivid, and so compelling, that I was hooked instantly. I love mysteries which take you on armchair travel trips to mysterious locations, and although the small fishing village of Salten is not on any “real” maps, I could picture it so clearly that I feel I have been there: an old tidal mill house on a deserted sand spit, crumbling away into a hungry sea. Delicious!

Apart from the location, the premise of the story holds its own unique pull. Four women, who had been inseparable friends when they were fifteen, reunite after seventeen years. What has kept them apart for so long? And what is the terrible secret that still holds such power over them after all this time that they will drop everything and rush to a friend’s aid when she asks them to? I was duly intrigued, loving the main protagonist Isa’s flashbacks to the time the four girls attended boarding school together. And if you haven’t had enough classic British scenery yet, the boarding school, Salten House, is like a mixture of Hogwarts and Malory Towers. My inner child was delighted – who can resist a good boarding school story, even as an adult? I felt a certain sense of longing reading about the teenagers’ friendship – you never quite feel the same intensity of loyalty again that consumed you at fifteen, when your friends were your whole universe.

To cut a long ramble short, the book had all the elements to make for a riveting, irresistible mystery. And Ruth Ware does it so well! With her ability to create a tense atmospheric setting and highly strung, somewhat neurotic characters who drive the story with an urgency lacking in other protagonists, the book had me enthralled from beginning to end. Each women brings with her a unique and diverse element that makes this bunch of friends very interesting indeed – and even though this book did not need a “twist you will never see coming” to make it memorable, it had a few surprises in store. Whilst this is a slow-burning, heavily character driven story, there is a constant undercurrent of tension and melancholic longing running through the storyline that made this an extremely compelling read. If anything, I would have loved to find out more about that endless happy summer the four girls spent at Salten, and their individual lives. I was sad when it ended!

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LoloZenVibes

Satisfying, on-the-edge-of-your-seat good!!!

Reviewed in the United States on 26 March 2024

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So many twists and turns....when you think you figure it out you are not even close! Wasn't interested in some gossipy girls romance thriller, and this is the furthest thing from that! Nail biting, on the edge of your seat good! I recommend to all thrill seeker readers.
Love Ruth Ware books. Already starting the next!

Paulina Medeiros

I am a fan

Reviewed in Canada on 30 August 2021

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I adore all of Ruth Ware’s books. Her prose is the perfect mash for my reading preferences. I love how all of her books are different. A few things you can count on in any Ware book you read are her signature fair and tight plotting, engaging prose that makes it impossible for you to put the book down, and relatable, well-drawn, multidimensional characters. The Lying Game is no exception. All her characters in the book had their own unique and strong voice, especially the four main characters. Not only did I feel like I was part of their group and knew them, their relationship felt like a character in itself. If I am a bit picky, I wish I had seen more of the academic setting and the game at play.

How Thea, Isabel, Fatima, and Isabel’s bond remained strong despite their distance is something that I could one hundred percent relate to. I moved away many years ago, and even when I don’t talk to my best friends for ages, we pick up from where we left. Our friendship never wavered. If any of them sent a message saying they needed me, I would also drop everything and go - no questions asked. I bet my life they would do the same. The relationship between the four women was my favourite thing in the book and portraited accurately.

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Susan Edleston

Perfect condition

Reviewed in Germany on 21 April 2022

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Very good condition and I used it to read

Ketki

Goooood!!!!

Reviewed in India on 15 October 2021

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It's Ruth Ware!!! What's left to say. Buy. Enjoy!

Vetgirlmx

Imposible soltarlo.

Reviewed in Mexico on 25 June 2018

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Me topé con el primer libro de Ruth Ware en un aeropuerto. Lo compré por impulso, y me encantó, así que seguí buscando sus libros, sin embargo The Lying Game es posiblemente el mejor hasta ahorita. Te mantienen en suspenso continuo, te cambia el juego en varias ocasiones, y no es hasta las últimas páginas donde entiendes lo que realmente ocurrió. Prepárense a no estar disponibles los días siguientes a que lo empiecen.

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