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THE LYING GAME<\/h2>\n

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Four friends. One promise.
But someone isn’t telling the truth.<\/h3>\n

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The text message arrives in the small hours of the morning: I need you<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spent the most significant days of her life at boarding school on the marshes there, days which still cast their shadow over her.<\/p>\n

Isa and her three best friends used to play the Lying Game, competing to convince people of outrageous stories. Now, after seventeen years of hiding the truth, something terrible has been found on the beach.<\/p>\n

The friends\u2019 darkest secret is about to come to light\u2026<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnother heart-stopping belter of a thriller from an epic talent\u201d<\/p>\n

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HEAT<\/p>\n

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\u201cA brilliantly original and atmospheric book\u201d<\/p>\n

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CLOSER<\/p>\n

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Read the first chapter HERE<\/a>
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IT ISN’T A
GAME WHEN SOMEBODY DIES…<\/h2>\n

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Four friends. One promise.
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The text message arrives in the small hours of the morning: I need you<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spent the most significant days of her life at boarding school on the marshes there, days which still cast their shadow over her.<\/p>\n

Isa and her three best friends used to play the Lying Game, competing to convince people of outrageous stories. Now, after seventeen years of hiding the truth, something terrible has been found on the beach.<\/p>\n

The friends\u2019 darkest secret is about to come to light\u2026<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnother heart-stopping belter of a thriller from an epic talent\u201d<\/p>\n

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HEAT<\/p>\n

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\u201cA brilliantly original and atmospheric book\u201d<\/p>\n

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CLOSER<\/p>\n

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REVIEWS<\/h2>\n

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\u201cI could not put this book down.\u201d<\/p>\n

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REESE WETHERSPOON<\/p>\n

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\u201cAtmospheric, mysterious, gripping.\u201d<\/p>\n

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MARIAN KEYES<\/p>\n

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\u201cRuth Ware is one of the best suspense writers out there and The Lying Game<\/i> is her strongest book yet. A gripping, unpredictable narrative that shifts like sand underfoot, and a plot that turns like the tide.\u201d<\/p>\n

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ERIN KELLY<\/p>\n

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\u201cThank goodness for Ruth Ware, a contemporary crime writer who\u2019s successfully extracted the integral elements of the genre\u2019s classics\u2026 and repackaged them for the modern reader\u2026 Ware weaves a nicely knotty, and more importantly, plausible mystery that as well as delivering the expected twists, turns and tension readers will be looking for, also showcases the thorny tensions and loyalties at work in the friendships between her main characters\u2026 a book that\u2019s gripping enough to be devoured in a single sitting.\u201d<\/p>\n

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INDEPENDENT<\/p>\n

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“Ruth Ware has done it again! In this <\/span>exceptional thriller, we are in marshland, where nothing is certain and the deadly secrets we kept with our best childhood friends may be about to resurface. Intriguing to the very last page, this is a superb exploration of friendship, family and <\/span>a page-turning top-notch mystery that is guaranteed to keep you reading into the wee small hours. I loved it!”<\/p>\n

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LIZ NUGENT, bestselling author of LYING IN WAIT<\/p>\n

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\u201cI could not put this book down.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cAtmospheric, mysterious, gripping.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cRuth Ware is one of the best suspense writers out there and The Lying Game<\/i> is her strongest book yet. A gripping, unpredictable narrative that shifts like sand underfoot, and a plot that turns like the tide.\u201d<\/p>\n

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ERIN KELLY<\/p>\n

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\u201cThank goodness for Ruth Ware, a contemporary crime writer who\u2019s successfully extracted the integral elements of the genre\u2019s classics\u2026 and repackaged them for the modern reader\u2026 Ware weaves a nicely knotty, and more importantly, plausible mystery that as well as delivering the expected twists, turns and tension readers will be looking for, also showcases the thorny tensions and loyalties at work in the friendships between her main characters\u2026 a book that\u2019s gripping enough to be devoured in a single sitting.\u201d<\/p>\n

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LIZ NUGENT, bestselling author of LYING IN WAIT<\/p>\n

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