“An Honest Lie is riveting suspense, but it’s also a scream of defiance, a howl of rage.” –#1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover“I’m going to kill her. You’d better come if you want to save her.”
Lorraine—“Rainy”—lives at the top of Tiger Mountain. Remote, moody, cloistered in pine trees and fog, it’s a sanctuary, a new life. She can hide from the disturbing past she wants to forget.
If she’s allowed to.
When Rainy reluctantly agrees to a girls’ weekend in Vegas, she’s prepared for an exhausting parade of shots and slot machines. But after a wild night, her friend Braithe doesn’t come back to the hotel room.
And then Rainy gets the text message, sent from Braithe’s phone: someone has her. But Rainy is who they really want, and Rainy knows why.
What follows is a twisted, shocking journey on the knife-edge of life and death. If she wants to save Braithe—and herself—the only way is to step back into the past.
This seething, gut-punch of a thriller can only have sprung from the fiendish brain of Tarryn Fisher, one of the most cunning writers of our time.
Looking for more great reads by Tarryn Fisher? Don’t miss The Wives and The Wrong Family.
The Review
In my opinion, this is not the worst Tarryn Fisher I’ve read but it’s close. It is by far the most disappointing.
Her plotlines read louder than her plot.
Like a literary siren, she draws me in, drowning me in the deep dark sea of nothingness.
In this book, we follow Rainey, who in the opening pages is being encouraged by her partner to join his friends for a weekend away. Peril ensues.
Interwoven between the scenes of this weekend of danger are flashbacks to when Rainey was younger. A lot of thrillers are doing this dual timeline pov and it might be time to move on to something else. There’s a craft to bringing the timelines together and still having a reader at the end that cares. I’m not sure it was successful on either the individual timelines or the summary.
But I can’t ruin this book for the lot so this one lands around the middle. I enjoyed parts of it and other parts felt overwritten. I think we could eliminate some of the persuading chunks of the book and live more in the action parts, which is what the book promised.
Thanks to Harlequin Trade Publishing, Graydon House, and Netgalley for this advanced copy!
Out April 26th
An Honest Lie…⭐️⭐️
