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  • Published: 6 August 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241676998
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $32.00

Such Charming Liars




From international bestselling author and the QUEEN OF TEEN CRIME Karen McManus comes a brand-new, explosive YA thriller.

The new mystery thriller from the author of One of Us Is Lying, Karen M. McManus! When mother-daughter grifters set out on their final heist, the job gets dangerously personal ... and deadly.

For all of Kat’s life, it’s just been her and her mother, Jamie—except for forty-eight hours twelve years ago when Jamie was married and Kat had a stepbrother, Liam. That all ended in a swift divorce, and Kat and Liam haven’t spoken since.

Now Jamie is a jewel thief trying to go straight, but she has one last job - at billionaire Ross Sutherland’s 80th birthday party. Kat has figured out a way to tag along to the dazzling Sutherland compound, but neither she nor her mother know about the other surprise guests that weekend: Liam and his father, a serial scammer who has his own sights set on Ross Sutherland’s youngest daughter.

Kat and Liam are on a collision course to disaster, and when a Sutherland dies, they realize they might be in the killer’s crosshairs themselves. They can’t trust anyone—except each other.

Or can they? Because if there’s one thing both Kat and Liam know, it’s how to lie. They learned from the best.

  • Published: 6 August 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241676998
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $32.00

About the author

Karen M. McManus

Karen M. McManus is the #1 New York Times and international bestselling author of young adult thriller/mystery novels, including One of Us Is Lying, One of Us Is Next, Two Can Keep a Secret, and The Cousins. You'll Be the Death of Me will be her next novel, publishing December 2021. Her work has been translated into more than 40 languages worldwide. Karen lives in Massachusetts and holds a master's degree in Journalism from Northeastern University, which she mostly uses to draft fake news stories for her novels. For more information, visit www.karenmcmanus.com or @writerkmc on Twitter and Instagram.

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Praise for Such Charming Liars

An unputdownable, deliciously twisty mystery

Publishers Weekly

Ingenious

Booklist, starred review

The narrative slips into high gear, executing hairpin twists and exploding bombshells that catapult the tale to an electrifying close

Kirkus Reviews

The narrative slips into high gear, executing hairpin twists and exploding bombshells that catapult the tale to an electrifying close

Kirkus Reviews

The queen of mystery is back with another chilling standalone

Cosmopolitan