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Count My Lies by Sophie Stava

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Count My Lies

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by Sophie Stava

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You’ll lose count of all the lies told in this suspenseful story about a woman who infiltrates a wealthy couple’s home.

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    Fast read

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    Psychological

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    Multiple viewpoints

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    Unreliable narrator

Synopsis

Sloane Caraway is a liar.

Harmless lies, mostly, to make her self-proclaimed sad, little life a bit more interesting.

So when Sloane sees a young girl in tears at a park one afternoon, she can’t help herself—she tells the girl’s (very attractive) dad she’s a nurse and helps him pull a bee stinger from the girl’s foot.

With this lie, and chance encounter, Sloane becomes the nanny for the wealthy and privileged Jay and Violet Lockhart. The perfect New York couple, with a brownstone, a daughter in private school, and summers on Block Island. But maybe Sloane isn’t the only one lying, and all that’s picture-perfect harbors a much more dangerous truth.

Careful what you lie for.

Why I love it

I always love stories told by unreliable narrators. The way that they transform your role as a reader from passive listener to detective—or, in this case, truth-seeker—immediately draws me in. Count My Lies takes this concept to a whole new level with sweat-inducing suspense, unexpected twists, and lots of deception.

Sloane is a pathological liar. She has no control over when she slips into a harmless fib, a simple embellishment, or an elaborate fabrication. After Sloane lies to Jay, the patriarch of the affluent Lockhart family, she ends up landing a job as a nanny for his daughter and things take a very dark turn. Sloane gets a behind-the-scenes look into the lives of the wealthy and learns that everyone is upholding some kind of facade. As Sloane’s lies pile up and the Lockharts’ secrets are revealed, a wild and dangerous unraveling occurs.

Trust me (if you can), you’ll love this book. This rollercoaster of a thriller will have you on the edge of your seat, turning the pages of your book faster than you would think is possible. Don’t lie to yourself—just add Count My Lies to your box!

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Daisy Darker
Bomb Shelter
The Paris Apartment
The Golden Couple
Reckless Girls
The Collective
Rock Paper Scissors
Razorblade Tears
How Lucky
Infinite Country
The Hunting Party
Pretty Little Wife
One by One
Winter Counts
The Night Swim
What You Wish For
Big Friendship
All the Stars and Teeth
You Are Not Alone
Truth Be Told
The Family Upstairs
What Happens in Paradise
Permanent Record
Hello Girls
Mind Games
The Turn of the Key
You'd Be Mine
The Other Woman
Golden State
An Anonymous Girl
For Better and Worse
November Road
The Anomaly
The Perfect Mother
The Oracle Year
Not That I Could Tell
The Woman in the Window
Fast read
View all
Retreat
Count My Lies
What the Wife Knew
Dearest
Grief Is for People
Pretty Boys Are Poisonous
The Intern
Dark Corners
The Last Word
It Starts with Us
Daisy Darker
Bomb Shelter
The Paris Apartment
The Golden Couple
Reckless Girls
The Collective
Rock Paper Scissors
Razorblade Tears
How Lucky
Infinite Country
The Hunting Party
Pretty Little Wife
One by One
Winter Counts
The Night Swim
What You Wish For
Big Friendship
All the Stars and Teeth
You Are Not Alone
Truth Be Told
The Family Upstairs
What Happens in Paradise
Permanent Record
Hello Girls
Mind Games
The Turn of the Key
You'd Be Mine
The Other Woman
Golden State
An Anonymous Girl
For Better and Worse
November Road
The Anomaly
The Perfect Mother
The Oracle Year
Not That I Could Tell
The Woman in the Window