
Truth Truth Lie
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Narrated by:
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Clare Corbett
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By:
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Claire McGowan
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“Perfect for fans of Lucy Foley.” —Jane Casey
“A spine-chillingly dark novel that will keep you guessing to the final page.” —The Sun
“A wickedly gripping thriller with some devilish twists.” —John Marrs
Everyone here has killed someone.
There is no way off this island.
You will all either kill or be killed here.
One of these statements is a lie. But which one?
Amira’s less than thrilled to be spending the weekend with her husband’s university friends. Two of them are hosting a joint fortieth on a private Scottish island, with vintage champagne, expensive gifts, and soaks in the wood-fired hot tub. Despite the luxury, Amira knows she’s going to feel left out, not to mention freezing cold and cut off.
When they decide to play ‘two truths and a lie’, anonymously posting three statements about themselves into a box, years of resentment start bubbling to the surface. And then an extra slip of paper emerges, scrawled with three chilling threats. Who wrote it? And are two of the statements really true—have they all been responsible for someone’s death?
With no phone reception and no way off the island, the group are trapped here until the end of the weekend. And as tension rises and secrets are spilled, they can’t shake the feeling that they’re not the only ones here. Is someone watching them? Someone who wants them dead? Or is it one of them who has murder in mind?
©2024 Claire McGowan (P)2024 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.Critic reviews
“A spine-chillingly dark novel that will keep you guessing to the final page.” —The Sun
“A pacy, packed storyline with plenty of raised-eyebrow moments and a wicked plot that’ll ensure you’ll keep reading to the end.” —The Belfast Telegraph
“A killer premise whets the appetite for this gripping, layered mystery, where literally nobody is entirely innocent, and the motives keep stacking up.” —Caz Frear, author of Five Bad Deeds
I did find it a bit confusing at first trying to work out in my head who was who and what was their relationship to the rest of the group. But once I got my head round that I flew through this book. I'd describe it as a mash up of And Then There Were None and I Know What You Did Last Summer. There are lots of twists along the way and I'm afraid I didn't guess whodunnit. Despite the large cast of characters I can't say I actually liked any of them, though I did have some sympathy for Amira.
The book is excellently read by Clare Corbett, who is brilliant at capturing children's voices. She is definitely one of my favourite narrators!
Great locked room thriller
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Twisty
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If any of the characters were in any way engaging, I would have way more patience with the thing unfolding, but if the set-up is the classic ‘these people are all awful, which one will die next?’, the indulgence of continual repetition and lingering on inner monologue covering the same ground from slightly different angles just becomes boring.
There are some clever twists and reveals, although again, sometimes overwritten so you’re way ahead of the story. I was engaged enough to get to the end, and while I rarely abandon books, it had just enough going on that I stayed to the finish.
But my main takeaway is that it just needed way, way more pace—cut a bunch of the internal reflections and hand wringing. Additionally, more could have been done to broaden out the characters—there are only nine principles—and perhaps then I would have had more interest in them before they gradually got their comeuppances. Each was a two-dimensional rendition of a type, at best, and very little was done to explore why they were how they were, or whether they had any redeeming qualities. It was all too superficial and derivative to engage me.
I really enjoyed the author’s Let Me In—also a twisty psychological thriller with some similar themes of guilt, regret, secrets, parenting—but that one was so much deeper in characterisation and nuance.
Narrator was okay—pretty good accents and good differentiation between a lot of different characters; excellent children’s voices—but her descriptive passages were often clipped and monotonous. Think she may have been wishing the story would get a move on as well as her audience…
Fun idea but massively overwritten/too long
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Sort of ruined the (otherwise good) story for me.
Really….
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Tight new take on Christies masterpiece.
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A thrilling tale
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Crazy plot
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Not a bad book for free. A bit long winded and not a good ending. Not one of her best.
Good narrator
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However, there were quite a few instances when you have to suspend disbelief and plough on. Lots of twists!
Hard to put down..
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Brilliant!
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