The Liar's Girl - Hardcover

Howard, Catherine Ryan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1504782542 ISBN 13: 9781504782548

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

Will Hurley was an attractive, charming, and impressive student at Dublin's elite St. John's College--and Ireland's most prolific serial killer. Having stalked his five young victims, he drowned them in the muddy waters of the Grand Canal. Sentenced to life imprisonment when he was just nineteen, Will is locked away in the city's Central Psychiatric Hospital.

Freshman Alison Smith moved to the Big Smoke to enroll in St. John's and soon fell hard for Will Hurley. Her world bloomed ... and then imploded when Liz, her best friend, became the latest victim of the Canal Killer--and the Canal Killer turned out to be the boy who'd been sleeping in her bed. Alison fled to the Netherlands and, in ten years, has never once looked back.

When a young woman's body is found in the Grand Canal, Garda detectives visit Will to see if he can assist them in solving what looks like a copycat killing. Instead, Will tells them he has something new to confess--but there's only one person he's prepared to confess it to.

The last thing Alison wants is to be pulled back into the past she's worked so hard to leave behind. Reluctantly, she returns to the city she hasn't set foot in for more than a decade to face the man who murdered the woman she was supposed to become.

Only to discover that, until now, Will has left out the worst part of all ...

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Review

"A very satisfying and twisty tale."

-- "Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author"

"Slick, smart, and stylish suspense. Characters so real I felt I knew them personally, a plot so taut it squeaked, and deeply poignant nods to the loss of innocence that every teenager craves and despairs. Really clever."

-- "Holly Seddon, USA Today bestselling author"

"A meticulous, devious plot, superb writing, and vivid, sympathetic characters would be enough to make The Liar's Girl a stand-out read, but its dark, sad, inevitable ending makes it a triumph."

-- "Eric Rickstad, New York Times bestselling author of The Names of Dead Girls"

"Read The Liar's Girl with the lights on. A thrilling whodunit with a shocking final twist."

-- "A. J. Banner, USA Today bestselling author"

"Catherine Ryan Howard is such a skilled storyteller--every setting was evocative, every hook well-placed, every twist expertly timed. I flew through it! Astonishingly good."

-- "Jo Spain, Irish Times bestselling author"

"An absolute belter of a book...[A] stand-out book in the thriller genre. Real and sympathetic characters, a flawlessly paced plot, and a genuinely original premise. I finished it at 2:00 a.m. last night, my heart pounding!"

-- "Gillian McAllister, Sunday Times bestselling author"

"A twisty read in which the tragedies extend beyond the murders. Has a man's life been ruined by a crime he did not commit? If so, why did he confess?"

-- "Cleveland Plain Dealer (Grade A)"

"The author grabs the reader by the scruff of the neck and she never lets go. She transforms Dublin into a sinister city of shadows, building the tension until breaking point...The plotting is faultless and the writing assured. Catherine Ryan Howard is as good as the early Val McDermid."

-- "Irish Examiner"

"The Liar's Girl takes us back to the canals of Dublin in a story packed with psychological trickery and playing on the theme of the bad boy, and a very bad boy indeed. What do you do when you realize your boyfriend is a killer?"

-- "Electric Lit"

"[In] this exceptional thriller...Howard keeps the reader turning the pages right through to the shocking and satisfying resolution."

-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"

About the Author

Catherine Ryan Howard was born in Cork, Ireland. Her debut thriller, Distress Signals, was an Irish Times and USA Today bestseller and was short-listed for the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey New Blood Dagger and the Irish Crime Novel of the Year. Her second novel, The Liar's Girl, was a finalist for the 2019 Edgar Award for Best Novel. She lives in Dublin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1504782542
• ISBN 13: 9781504782548
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336