Fast paced and twisty! This is definitely McKenzie's best book yet! I would recommend this.

THE GOOD LIAR is a thriller that kept me at the edge of my seat as the story unfolded. The begins a year after a tragic explosion office building that kills Cecily's husband and best friend. Cecily feels guilty because she was supposed to be in the building that day. A photographer captures her image moments after the building and she becomes the poster child for the tragedy. But nothing is really as it seems. As a documentarian interviews those affected by the explosion, he begins to uncover inconsistencies in the survivors' stories. His personal involvement with Cecily further complicates matters, resulting in a well plotted story with lots of twists. The ending felt a little incomplete, but overall, I really enjoyed the book.

I received this arc yesterday & I am already finished reading it this morning. I would have read it straight through, but I needed a couple hours of sleep. I definitely recommend reading this book, you won't be disappointed! There were so many highs & lows, twists & turns, & an incredible ending. Exceptional plot & writing!! A must read! One of the best of I have read in 2017!!

Cecily & Tom, together for 22 years, married for 20. They have two beautiful children & a beautiful life, or so Cecily believes. Kaitlyn is Cecily's best friend. She works for Tom. She has secrets that she has kept to herself. And there is Franny, a young woman desperately searching for her birth mother.

An explosion of the building where Tom works, & where Cecily was supposed to meet him, buries many secrets that Cecily, Kaitlyn & Franny hopes doesn't ever have surface. The one year anniversary marks the unraveling of everyone's secrets.

Thank you NetGalley &, Lake Union Publishing for this advanced copy in exchange for my honest opinion!

Another great book from this author. WOW, just wow. You can't miss this one. Read it in one day, couldn't put it down.

I received a copy of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley.

A year after a gas explosion destroys an office block in Chicago, killing hundreds of people, Teo is making a documentary about how it has affected three families. Cecily lost her husband Tom and she and her children received generous compensation. Joshua lost his wife Kaitlyn (Cecily's best friend), but there have been issues with the evidence proving she was among the dead, so his compensation has been delayed. Finally there is Franny, the child Kaitlyn gave up for adoption 20 years ago, but about whom she never told either Joshua or Cecily. An additional thread features Kate, who fled the explosion and ran away to Montreal, where she works as a nanny. This thread is worked in to the main narrative fairly early on.

I found this novel gripping and well-written. There are revelations throughout which make the reader re-evaluate what is true about the characters and about how they are connected to each other. I found Kate rather an opaque character, whose actions made little sense to me. Cecily on the other hand was easier to identify with and I enjoyed the chapters featuring her with her children and/or Teo. There were also parts of the story told by way of scripts from Teo's interviews and these worked well to vary the narrative voice.

I am deducting a star for the ending.


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Franny having caused the explosion seemed to me an unnecessarily dramatic twist, and I was also confused about why Franny's sister claimed so vehemently that Franny was not adopted. I feel like this should be a matter of incontrovertible public record.

Three women united by an event the press called Triple Ten, the explosion of a building that killed over 500 people. Cecily’s husband was killed in the explosion, but she’s no grieving widow. Kate has taken refuge in Canada to escape from the tragedy and her part in it, and Franny is looking for her birth mother, a woman she will do anything to find. This was an interesting story about the aftermath of a national tragedy, and McKenzie had me flip-flopping on who di what to who for quite a while. A fun, suspenseful read