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  • Published: 31 December 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241973288
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288

The Good Liar




When Only A Lie Will Reveal The Truth

This is a life told back to front.

This is a man who has lied all his life.

Roy is a conman living in a small English town, about to pull off his final con. He is going to meet and woo a beautiful woman and slip away with her life savings.

But who is the man behind the con and what has he had to do to survive this life of lies?

And why is this beautiful woman so willing to be his next victim?

  • Published: 31 December 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241973288
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288

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Praise for The Good Liar

An assured thriller debut in the footsteps of le Carré, Highsmith and Rendell...The Good Liar makes you want to experience Nicholas Searle's next trick

Guardian

This is set to be one of the books of the year that will get everyone talking....If you go in with absolutely no preconceptions, you will have your socks knocked, nay, blown off

Stylist

A part-thriller, part-human condition novel that packs a tremendous punch

Financial Times

The Good Liar is a taut, compulsive thriller with a dark, intriguing heart. A Mr Ripley for our time

Jonathan Freedland

All the ingredients are in this book...You're in safe hands with Searle's elegant writing

The Times

An incredibly dark, taut thriller...it deserves to be a bestseller. Think of Ruth Rendell morphing into John le Carré

Daily Express

Searle shows a gift for complex plotting. The Good Liar is packed with secrets and surprises, bluffs and double-bluffs

Daily Telegraph

A perfectly entertaining way to spend a few hours

Sunday Times

A confident debut...an easy page-turner

Grazia

A cracking read

Graham Norton, BBC Radio 2

What a clever and menacing novel The Good Liar is. I was gripped and horrified in equal measure and the ending knocked me sideways! I can't wait for everyone to read the book so I can talk about it

Nina Stibbe, bestselling author of 'Love, Nina' and 'Man at the Helm'