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Count My Lies
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  • Published: 21 April 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804952696
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $28.00

Count My Lies

  • Sophie Stava
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Paperback
21 Apr 2026
Tr. Paperback
20 May 2025
EBook
4 Mar 2025
Audiobook
4 Mar 2025
Hardback
22 June 2025
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I'm in your house. I'm your friend. You can trust me. A voice-driven, read-in-one-night suspense thriller now in paperback!

‘Smart, original and twisty' Liane Moriarty

‘Utterly gripping and unputdownable' Amy Tintera

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Sloane Caraway is a liar.

They are harmless lies, she tells herself, to make her own life a bit more interesting.

So when she sees a child in tears in a playground one afternoon, she tells the girl’s (very attractive) dad she’s a nurse and helps him pull a bee sting from his daughter’s foot.

With this lie and chance encounter, Sloane becomes the nanny for Jay and Violet Lockhart who have everything: a beautiful brownstone house, a daughter in private nursery school, and long summers on an idyllic island just off the coast of New York.

Sloane wants to be just like them. She wants their life and she’s prepared to lie about almost
everything to get it.

But Sloane isn’t the only one lying, and soon she begins to realise that all that’s picture-perfect about her employers hides a much more dangerous truth . . .

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‘Readers will find themselves racing through the final, jaw-dropping pages, desperate to gather every last clue of this astonishing web of lies’ Katy Hays

‘Get ready for a rollercoaster of twists’ Liv Constantine

'Sharp, engaging, and unputdownable, I devoured this in one day!' Trisha Sakhlecha
  • Published: 21 April 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804952696
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $28.00
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Praise for Count My Lies

This compelling, tautly plotted book will appeal not only to lovers of Gone Girl–style tales of suspense but anyone with a taste for smart, well-crafted fiction. A page-turning thrill-ride of a story from a debut novelist

Kirkus Reviews

Stava's suspenseful debut strikes all the enticing notes of a captivating psychological drama . . . Count My Lies features a finely crafted, engaging plot laden with thrilling detours, idyllic settings and deeply flawed yet attractive personalities for whom telling the truth is strictly optional.

Shelf Awareness

This twisty debut novel about a young woman named Sloane, a habitual liar who finds work as a nanny for a 'perfect' New York couple, has garnered comparisons to Gone Girl.

The Washington Post

Devilishly plotted . . . Stava keeps the pages turning. This is good fun.

Publishers Weekly

[A] gripping debut thriller . . . The author has taken on quite a challenge here, and she pulls it off spectacularly.

Booklist

The author nails it from the first sentence … With its punchy, chatty writing style nothing will stop this from becoming a runaway bestseller.

Daily Mail

[A] taut, "just one more page" novel

iNews

Debut novel of the month … Well observed. Brilliant.

The Critic