Member Review

I've noticed that recently I've rated almost all of the thrillers I read pretty bad or with just average ratings. I assumed that it was simply because I had read a fair amount of similar books in such a short time. But when I took "Lies She Told", it turned out that there was still room in my head for a good plot, and that good book found its way to a good rating even in the biggest crowd.

Cate Holahan brings us an interesting story of a colleague, writer Liza Cole. Liza wrote a successful first book - a bestseller, but it seems that her later works can hardly reach the same level. We meet Liza in moments when her life is quite complicated; the editor gives her a month to submit her new book, she's struggling with infertility and decides to be subjected to experimental treatment that makes her suffer from various undesirable side effects, while her husband David is physically and mentally absent due to the disappearance of his business partner and best friend Nick.

Liza's story is intertwined with the story of the protagonist of her new book, Beth. Beth is a young mother who becomes a witness to the affair of her own husband, Jake. This cognition breaks down her illusion of a perfect life, but Beth decides to preserve the debris of her marriage, and instead of confronting her husband, she switches all of her anger to Colleen, a young policewoman, her husband's associate and mistress.

While the plot is progressing, two completely separated stories reveal common elements, and the boundary between them is irreparably clouded. Beth is increasingly influencing Liza and it becomes clear that she is not just a book character. Cate Holahan leads us to unexpected places in the thoughts of her characters and creates a thriller that you'll hardly drop out of your hand before you finish reading the whole book.