A great psychological thriller-fast paced and with enough twists and turns to keep you guessing throughout the book. Meet Susannah, a widow with her son Freddy and Max her second husband who has made a name for himself both in the art world and as a speaker living the good life and wanting for nothing. But be careful-nothing is as it seems. When threatening notes start appearing on the front door the subtrifuge and lies perpetuated by all of them lead to murder. It begs the question-do you really know the person you’re living with or do you just think you do?

All seems perfect but nothing is as it seems. Difficult and disturbing read, with gratuitous violence and vulgarity. The characters, while it might have been the author's intent, were unreliable, unlikable and disturbed and really distracted me from enjoying the plot and its potential.

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for providing a digital copy in return for an honest, unbiased review.

Susanna is married to Max, an artist of sorts. They are living a happy life when a note appears on their door shaking them both up because it seems one of them has secrets that the other is unaware of. Max's colleague turns up dead making things more complex. The book is about the secrets that couple harbor and how these alter their life. The book was a relatively short read and was neither boring nor exciting enough to keep me up to finish it. It definitely had it's moments, the plot was interesting, but the writing wasn't exciting enough. I really liked how the book shaped up, and though at one point it was a bit predictable, it did turn out to surprise me at the end. A lot of questions remain unanswered. Too many loose ends that were just left so. I really wish there was more fire in the writing because the plot has so much more to deliver!
Overall, it was a decent read, but not an amazing read or anything as such.

I KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

Max W. and Susannah have moved from NYC to an upscale, college town in Vermont, a fresh start for the couple and Susannah's son, Freddy. When ominous one line notes begin to appear on their doorstep, their seemingly perfect world begins to unravel at an alarming rate. This story alternates between present day and the pasts of both husband and wife. Neither is who they appear to be, but what secrets have they kept from each other?

The Perfect Liar was a quick page turner that kept me guessing and my mind reeling with the revelations of past events. I found none of the characters likable or which was my one hang up, but this did not detract from the need to find out how the twisted scenarios would play out by the end.

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the opportunity to read this eGalley. All opinions are my own.

This book had a promising start and kept me going right until about 70% and then the story seemed to fall apart. There are so many story lines and information that builds up, but the end seemed a little disconnected and also a little disappointing. I thought more would happen. I still give this book 3 stars and I'm sure many people will enjoy it. It is a page turner and kept me reading until the end, well past my bedtime.

The Perfect Liar is the pretzel of twists and turns at every single corner. Thomas Christopher Greene sure knows how to shock you just as you think all the secrets have been brought to light.

The Perfect Liar follows Susannah and Max, a happily married couple. Susannah’s son from her previous marriage lives with them. Their lives seem great. Susannah spends her days working out and taking care of the household as Max teaches at his fancy job at the University and travels around doing speeches on his love… Art. But is it? Turns out Max has some secrets about who he is and Susannah is definitely no saint. And now someone else knows one of their secrets and is leaving weird notes on the door. CREEPY!

This book kept me intrigued with all the different twists and turns and pop-up backstories that showed the not-so-innocent side of Susannah and Max. Greene gave just the right level of information to make these characters thoroughly terrifying, yet appear as if they were the perfect family next door. My only issue with The Perfect Liar was the amount of things these two got away with. I know there are criminals out there that get away with crime after crime and never get caught, but there was almost a lack of realism at times that left me slightly annoyed. But all in all, Greene did a good job of tying the story together into a smoothly, and intricately flowing story that had you shocked until the very last page. You will definitely be saying, “These people are crazy!”

I will definitely be checking out more from Thomas Christopher Greene going forward. A psychological thriller such as The Perfect Liar is good for anyone who loves the twisty stories. Constant drama and excitement in mass proportions.

This is the first book I've read by this author, and it definitely wont be the last! Kept me on the edge of my sleep. You definitely wont be able to put this page turner down!

The Perfect Liar is a perfect of a fast-paced-keep-you-on-the-edge-of-Your-seat-roller-coaster-ride of a story.
This is my favorite kind of book. From the very first page it pulls you in and takes you through endless twists and turns. The best part is, just when you think you’ve heard it all... you’re just getting started. This is easily the most exciting book I’ve read in a while. Highly recommend!!

Susannah was first married to Joseph, who was her therapist. Together they had a son Freddy. Joseph died and left Susannah to raise Freddy on her own. But she meets Max and they get married.
Max becomes an art teacher at the local university and everything is going great for the family until a note is found on the door. I Know Who You Are. Susannah and Max are lost to who could have wrote that message.
I enjoyed this one because you were constantly questioning who was sending the messages and why. You will not get bored reading this thriller, it is fast paced.

Everyone has secrets in the Perfect Liar.

Susannah has finally reached the good life with her second husband, Max, and her son, Freddy. Then a note is tacked to her door, “I know who you are”. Susannah assumes the note is meant for her. However, Max also has secrets to hide.

The Perfect Liar is a compelling read. However, I thought some of the plot was left dangling at the end. The two twists were fun. I would recommend this book to thriller readers looking to lose some sleep the night they start reading it. 3 stars.

Thanks to St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

A three star ⭐️ book. I’d call The Perfect Liar a mild psychological thriller. There’s just enough to keep you hanging on and guessing. There was a few times I found myself skimming the fluff of the book to seek out the meaty parts.

Well that was pretty messed up. The bad guy is obvious throughout the book, but it still managed to have plenty of twists and turns! If you like domestic thrillers, add this one to your list!

Who is the perfect liar? The husband or wife? What did the liar do in order to create the lie? How far will the liar go to keep everything hidden?

I'm not sure that I liked these characters but the story, within itself, was good. For me, this was a 3.75 stars.

This is exactly how you write a psychological thriller!

A seemingly perfect marriage...
A note shows up on the couple's door, "I Know Who You Are."
One of them is lying...
This is all you really need to know before you venture into this book.

The way one of the characters reacts to our unsettling note is so cinematically suspenseful. The writing gripped me, and some of the primary events vividly reminded me of Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith (which is a personal favorite classic thriller of mine). One quarter in, I was ambushed by a shocking occurrence that I did NOT see coming - one that compelled me to keep reading.

Almost immediately afterwards, we are given an impression of who the note is destined to and now this person's life is completely changed for they have to be careful of the people around them and plunge into an investigation of who the secret sender could be.

So who exactly is the "perfect liar"?

This, of course, doesn't mean that both these characters aren't flawed in the darkest way, and hadn't done something in the past that will surely come back to bite them.

Get ready for a magnificent work of domestic suspense, and brace yourselves for a jaw-dropping twist; one where you'll need to take a deeeep breath before continuing on.

The book releases January 15th. Mark your calendars, fellow bookworms!

The first clue to the plot of “The Perfect Liar” by Thomas Christopher Greene is in the titles of the chapters. We begin with “The first note” and go on from there. Susannah finds that first note, written in block letters, on the door “I know who you are.”
Green gives readers lots of background on Max and Susannah, their meeting, courtship, just how they got to where they are in time. Deception permeates every minute of every day with both of them. Susannah had been married to Joseph for a long time. She deceived him about birth control, and their son, Freddy, was born.. Six years later Joseph died of a heart attack, making Susannah a widow at twenty-seven. Susannah met Max W (Max Westmoreland) when he crashed a party. When they planned to marry, Susannah’s friends wondered how well she knew Max, but in truth, her friends did not know Susannah very well either.
Max was born Phil Wilbur in the tiny western New York. He did not become a fraud, in his view, but emerged into the world that way, fully formed. He became Max Westmoreland and traveled as far south as Tallahassee, and as far north as Burlington, Vermont, where many years later Max and Susannah and Freddy would make their home.
Greene gives readers an idyllic picture of where all this nasty deception is happening.
Around them people walked by in the dark. The stars were overhead. To their left, cars went down the slope of Main Street to the restaurants and the clubs. And none of it mattered. Then normalcy descended as easily as after a thunderstorm. It was as if the weather just needed to break, shake off the humidity, and suddenly it was glorious, beautiful summer.
The story alternates between Susannah's perspective and Max’s viewpoint, but neither Max nor Susannah is reliable, and no one is who he or she seems to be. Greene keeps readers wondering what is the truth and what is a lie. In the end, readers should question everything they read. The plot is disturbing but delightfully misleading. Lies pile up on one upon the other, leading to an unpredictable, startling and yet fulfilling ending.
I was given a copy of “The Perfect Liar” by Thomas Christopher Greene, St Martin’s Press, and NetGalley. Readers cannot help but wonder if Max and Susannah are perfect liars or just incredibly lucky to get away with it. And the last line tells it all.

Susannah and Max seems to have the perfect life: happily married, raising her teenage son together, and leaving behind their chaotic life in New York for a quiet town in Vermont where Max teaches art in college. What could possibly wrong? They have both secrets from their past that they are keeping hidden from everyone, including each other. So, one morning, when Susannah comes back from her daily run and finds a note on her front door that says “I know who you are”, Susannah knows that their perfect life is about to grumble. As more notes are found on their daughter, the situation quickly spirals out of control…
Even though the story is at times predictable, it has also a few twists that took me by surprise and make the novel suspenseful and chilling. I liked the Vermont setting and the premise of the novel is what got me interested in the novel in the first place, but, despite all these things, I couldn’t really get into the story and I didn’t like the protagonists of the book who I found annoying and a bit tiresome.

3.5 stars

A perfect marriage between two imperfect people - both are artists, and both have secrets.

Susannah, a young mother and widower met Max W, an artist and popular speaker, at a party. They soon married and eventually they moved to Vermont when Max gets a job there. Max, Susannah and Freddy like it in Vermont. Life is easy there. They are comfortable and happy until one day a note appears on their door. A note which reads I KNOW WHO YOU ARE. An honest person might think "I know who I am too! I'm Max or I'm Susannah" but each of them has a secret. Both are nervous - but Max is nervous. He begins to wonder just who knows his secret, who out there is taunting him, who wants to ruin his reputation, his marriage, his life? Soon another note arrives. Suspicion grows. Tension mounts as the reader is left to wonder, how Max and Susannah will react when/if his/her secrets are revealed.

I found this to be a fast-easy read. It came with a few twists and turns which made for an interesting read which didn't require much thought. This was pure escapism reading for me. I found the couple’s secrets to be more interesting than the identity of the note sender. Overall, I found this to be quite enjoyable and it was fun to try and figure out just who was the "perfect" liar?

Thank you to St. Marin's Press and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. The thoughts and opinions are my own.

ating 3.5 stars

The power of a story is in repetition. It's iterative. If you say something enough times, and say it with authority, you will be believed. It's all in the delivery and in being consistent.

The big marriage question...Do you really know who you are married to? Husband and wife Max and Susannah have their own secrets from their past. Susannah a young widow with a young son and Max with his entry into the Art world was unprecedented. Narration is done with both of their own voice and motivation. Max from homelessness to popular speaker and Susannah living in the shadows of her new husband.

When Suzannah finds the first note written in bold letters I KNOW WHO YOU ARE, she becomes undone and not being able to keep anything from her husband, he too becomes concerned. With both of their pasts, unbeknownst to their spouses, they contemplate who is the enemy. For the reader, the secrets unravel and the marriage becomes who can you trust.

The kicker is who sent the note and once that is known, the plot takes a different direction. You never really know what the other is capable of. High tension, page turning suspense.

A Special Thank you to St. Martin's Press and Netgalley for the ARC and the opportunity to post an honest review

Susannah and Max are married. It’s the second marriage for Susannah. Her first husband passed away. Max is charming and the life of the party. He is now stepfather to her fifteen-year-old son.

Susannah thinks the past is behind her and her new life is idyllic when she receives a note on her door one morning.

The note says, “I know who you are.”

Max is not worried in the least about the note; however, just days after having dinner with Susannah and Max, someone dies in an accident while on a run…with Max.

And that is all followed with another note on the door, “Did you get away with it?”

Susannah and Max each have secrets, and they are big ones. Their idyllic world would be shattered if they come to light.

I loved hearing from both Susannah and Max, and the ending was out of sight. The whole time I was questioning who is the perfect liar? Or is it both of them? Unexpected and unpredictable, The Perfect Liar is a solid thriller!

Thanks to St. Martin’s Press for the complimentary copy. All opinions are my own.

The Perfect Liar by Thomas Christopher Greene is a thriller about a couple, Max and Susannah, and who is the liar in the relationship. I was very disappointed in this book, and found the couple very unlikable, and could care less about either one. In my opinion the ending wasn't justice.

I received this book in exchange for a fair and honest review.