Never Tell a Lie - Softcover

Hallie Ephron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061567167 ISBN 13: 9780061567162

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2010

Synopsis

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Review:

"Hallie Ephron keeps this exciting story whipping along while keeping the reader in delicious supense. Recommended to all lovers of suspense fiction."--Anne Bernays

"NEVER TELL A LIE should come with a warning label: You will not play with your children, cook your dinner, or go to sleep once you start reading Hallie Ephron's debut novel!"--Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle

"It's impossible to combine ruthlessness, duplicity, a heinous crime and a heroic escape--if the protagonist is a 33-year-old woman nine months into a high-risk pregnancy. It's impossible, unless you're Hallie Ephron . . . You'll hate to see this one end."--Jacquelyn Mitchard, New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean and Cage of Stars

"[A] fast-paced, exceptional tale that's likely to keep you quickly flipping pages until the wee hours of the morning."--Lansing State Journal

"Hallie Ephron's NEVER TELL A LIE is a gripping, chilling, fast-paced psychological thriller, engrossing enough to stay with you long after you turn the final page. Truth be told, I'm still sleeping with the lights on!"--Claire Cook, bestselling author of Must Love Dogs and Wildwater Walking Club

"Hallie Ephron's NEVER TELL A LIE is a great discovery, compelling and chilling and all too credible. Someone once coined the word unputdownable to describe a James M. Cain novel, and this is one of those rare books that actually meets that standard."--Laura Lippman, author of the New York Times bestseller Another Thing to Fall

"NEVER TELL A LIE takes us into a totally familiar, sharply drawn, ordinary suburban world -- and then, like the best of Hitchcock, begins to turn the screws until the suspense becomes unbearable and you can't stop reading until the last, ingenious twist."--Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of Power Play, Killer Instinct, and Paranoia

"[A] page-turner with a Hitchcockian opener."--Sacramento Bee

"[A] snaky, unsettling tale of psychological suspense."--Seattle Times

"The plot is as cleverly structured as one of Mary Higgins Clark's, but Ephron's writing is vastly better."--First Things

From the Back Cover:

It all started with the yard sale . . .

Eight months pregnant and nervous about the future, Ivy Rose doesn't recognize the woman approaching her and husband David as they attempt to rid themselves of the decades-worth of junk cluttering up their suburban home. The woman says she's Melinda White--their former high school classmate, now pregnant also--and asks if she might revisit the old Victorian house she recalls playing in as a child. David takes her inside. But Melinda never comes out.

With her husband a suspect in the bizarre disappearance and probable murder of the near-stranger he claims not to remember, Ivy must now dive into a deadly whirlpool of deceit, betrayal, and terrifying alternate histories in pursuit of a shocking truth--a truth that could destroy everything . . .

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0061567167
• ISBN 13: 9780061567162
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 288