All the Little Liars

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July 2003. It was a case that shocked the nation and shook their little town Carlsbad to its core. The Turtle Lake Teen disappeared from a party four days ago. Three 13-year old best friends had sneaked out to the party - but only two came home. Then hikers made a grisly discovery: the word LIAR on a tree trunk near the lake, scrawled in blood. And so it begins. A breathtaking rollercoaster of epic twisty-turny proportions. I've not read Victoria Selman before, but after All The Little Liars she goes firmly on my list of authors to look out for. A big fan of the pulsating psychological thriller, I was in. Fully in. All the way in. 

A true crime curiosity? Ooh yes please. As we speed from Before and After to Now we find how that terrible night impacted Kat's life. Kat who used to be Izzy Jackman's sister. That Izzy Jackman of Turtle Lake Fame. How after sentencing, Kat and her Dad left California and moved to London. How she changed her name leaving Finn far behind. With her life before. With only her memories of her dead mother and Dita her modern day Mary Poppins who raised them after their mother died.

For twenty years Kat has worn a mask. Never recovering from the nightmare that was Turtle Lake and losing her sister. Never knowing what truly happened. And how her childhood was split into before and after that day. Until one day Elsa Stone, a documentarian working on an expose about Turtle Lake, gets in touch. Spiralling Kat even more out of control. But will she finally find out the truth? And will she finally be able to heal and get on with her life?

It's a terrifying of-the-moment thriller about family, friendship, our need for belonging and the power of peer pressure. With one helluva twist. A cold case brought to the fore with every horrifying memory. Every riveting revelation. Every article and every diary entry. Love a tense pageturner? Love a spinner of yarns? Then Selman's your gal. All The Little Liars will have you hooked. 

Deborah Maclaren

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