Such Charming Liars
Verlag | Penguin Random House |
Alter | ab 14 Jahre |
Auflage | 2024 |
Seiten | 400 |
Format | 13,9 x 20,8 x 2,7 cm |
Gewicht | 390 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
EAN | 9780593815212 |
Bestell-Nr | 59381521EA |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The newest mystery from the author One of Us Is Lying, the Queen of thrillers, Karen M. McManus! When mother-daughter grifters set out on their final job, the heist gets deadly and dangerously personal.
For all of Kat s life, it s just been her and her mother, Jamie except for the forty-eight hours when Jamie was married and Kat had a stepbrother, Liam. That all ended in an epic divorce, and Kat and Liam haven t spoken since.
Now Jamie is a jewel thief trying to go straight, but she has one last job at billionaire Ross Sutherland s birthday party. And Kat has figured out a way to tag along. What Kat doesn t know, though, is that there are two surprise guests at the dazzling Sutherland compound that weekend. The last two people she wants to run into. Liam and his father a serial scammer who has his sights set on Ross Sutherland s youngest daughter.
Kat and Liam are on a collision course to disaster, and when a Sutherland dies, they r ealize they might actually be in the killer s crosshairs themselves. Somehow Kat and Liam are the new targets, and they can t trust anyone except each other.
Or can they? Because if there s one thing both Kat and Liam know, it s how to lie. They learned from the best.
Rezension:
"McManus's plot goes into overdrive with ingenious and unexpected twists and turns, including a particularly satisfying double twist at the end....McManus fans will devour this, and she will certainly earn some new fans as well." Booklist, starred review
"This novel s twists take readers on a wild ride until the very last page....This might be McManus s best yet." School Library Journal, starred review
"The narrative slips into high gear, executing hairpin twists and exploding bombshells that catapult the tale to an electrifying close." Publishers Weekly
"An unputdownable, deliciously twisty mystery." Kirkus Reviews