The Liar's Girl

By Catherine Ryan Howard

The Liar's Girl - Catherine Ryan Howard
  • Release Date: 2018-02-27
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Score: 4
4
From 599 Ratings

Description

Her first love confessed to five murders…but the truth was so much worse.

Will Hurley was an attractive, charming, and impressive student at Dublin’s elite St. John’s College—and Ireland’s most prolific serial killer. Having stalked his four young victims, he drowned them in the muddy waters of the Grand Canal. Sentenced to life imprisonment when he was just nineteen, Will is locked away in the city’s Central Psychiatric Hospital.

Freshman Alison Smith moved to the Big Smoke to enroll in St. John’s and soon fell hard for Will Hurley. Her world bloomed … and then imploded when Liz, her best friend, became the latest victim of the Canal Killer—and the Canal Killer turned out to be the boy who’d been sleeping in her bed. Alison fled to the Netherlands, changed her name, and, in ten years, has never once looked back.

When a young woman’s body is found in the Grand Canal, Garda detectives visit Will to see if he can assist them in solving what looks like a copycat killing. Instead, Will tells them he has something new to confess—but there’s only one person he’s prepared to confess it to.

The last thing Alison wants is to be pulled back into the past she’s worked so hard to leave behind. Reluctantly, she returns to the city she hasn’t set foot in for more than a decade to face the man who murdered the woman she was supposed to become.
Only to discover that, until now, Will has left out the worst part of all …

“An absolute belter of a book…[A] stand-out book in the thriller genre. Real and sympathetic characters, a flawlessly paced plot and a genuinely original premise.” —Gillian McAllister, Sunday Times bestselling author

“Read The Liar’s Girl with the lights on. A thrilling whodunit with a shocking final twist.” —A. J. Banner, USA Today bestselling author

The Liar’s Girl is an addictive page-turner that…ladles out the suspense like spoonfuls of sugar, building to a heady rush of tension—and a heartbreaking final twist in the tale.” —Jo Furniss, author of the bestselling All the Little Children

“Slick, smart, and stylish suspense. Characters so real I felt I knew them personally, a plot so taut it squeaked, and deeply poignant nods to the loss of innocence that every teenager craves and despairs. Really clever.” —Holly Seddon, USA Today bestselling author

Reviews

  • Could not stop reading

    4
    By 𝑅𝑜𝑠𝑦
    It took me a day and half to finish this book. I was so obsessed I could not put it down. The ending made me say “holy crap” although I wish more were to happen between Will and Ali. I feel like this could have been a series. All in all great read.
  • Loved it

    5
    By Wizzie11
    Really compelling read. Great fantastic characters.
  • No no no

    3
    By Chiquita_77
    Terrible ending
  • I wanted A+W

    4
    By 🫡🫢😬
    I couldn’t put it down, the ending was so realistic in the sense it was sort of anticlimactic but honestly, that’s probably how it would have happened in reality. But is it so weird that I wanted Ali and Will to end up back together??? I understand why, too much has changed but I can’t help but imagine the life they could make together.
  • Terrible

    1
    By Shalley71
    This book had multiple voices of which none were compelling. The protagonist was shallow and unlikeable. I slogged through it just to make sure I made it to the end. Not worth any amount of money to read.
  • Page turner!

    5
    By E&G's mommy
    Couldn’t put it down. *Slightly* anticlimactic ending, but it definitely kept me on my toes throughout.
  • A good read

    5
    By Woodhue
    The story is interesting if just a little predictable toward the end. But definitely worth reading. Makes you think twice about a lot of things you normally do that could easily cause a course of events you do not expect....
  • WAOOOOO

    5
    By Ireke Onuma
    Waooo. This is a great read. Got me on and off the ground. Smooth but well plotted. I enjoyed every line of it. One of the strange cases of picking up a book by an unknown author and it blew my top away. A must read.
  • The Liars Girl

    4
    By C&LH
    Good story