I chose this book because it reminded me of another influencer mystery book that I really liked, You Will Never Be Me. This one will resonate with people who follow r/fundiesnark, where people pick apart Christian influencers' lives one reel at a time. It's not bad.

Fun and twisty tale of murder with more thoughtful themes of what truly is a "tradwife" and the illusion that social media allows influencers to create. Fast paced and engaging. Great summer read!

What a fun read!!! Jo Piazza always brings such a fresh voice to her work, and I always trust she's done the research to really tell the story she's telling in the most true-to-life way while still keeping the story squarely fiction. This one's a winner!

This was interesting. This follows 2 friends. One who is a mom influencer and one who is a journalist. When the journalist gets invited to a Mom influencer event something tragic happens and we go through the two perspectives to see if the mom influencer is involved.

I liked how being an influencer was discussed and that behind the posts/reels/TikTok’s there isn’t a perfect life. You just never know what people are going through behind the cameras.

The topic of domestic violence is discussed throughout this story.

Everyone Is Lying To You is a psychological thriller about 2 women who went to school together and are reunited as adults, after the husband of one of them is found dead. One is a writer for a women’s magazine and one is a social media influencer - in trad wife genre. This book drives it home how social media is fake. That you cannot believe what you see nor should you let it affect your mental health. I loved the jabs at social media. I loved the jabs at the trad wife trend that is destroying everything women have fought for. I loved the twists and turns and red herrings that kept me guessing until the very end. It was a wild page turner of a ride that I didn’t want to end.

This was one of my most anticipated books of 2025, and Jo Piazza did not disappoint. I’ve been a fan since The Knockoff and Fitness Junkie and for me, her sharp yet nonjudgmental takes on culture always hit the mark.

In Everyone Is Lying to You, Piazza dives deep into the glossy, curated world of mom influencers and the tradwife movement. Lizzie, a journalist for an online magazine, is stunned when her former college best friend, Rebecca (formerly Bex), resurfaces after years of silence. Now a wildly successful trad-wife influencer, Rebecca invites Lizzie to cover a major announcement at an influencer conference.

What begins as a bizarre, yet surprisingly nice reunion quickly spirals into a high-stakes mystery. Rebecca disappears, her husband turns up brutally murdered, and Lizzie is left to untangle a web of secrets, curated personas, and digital deceit.

This book will keep you guessing and second-guessing. Smart, timely, and completely addictive. Five big stars.

I'm loving this recent #tradwife genre in mystery/suspense, and Jo Piazza's Everyone Is Lying to You is a twisty who-done-it that kept me guessing until the end. I loved this peek behind the world of influencing, where all is not as it seems, and there are secrets that will be revealed. Everyone is Lying to You is the perfect summer read, a true page-turner meant to be binged.

This book is all about instagram influencers and how nobody’s lives are what they appear to be. Things turn very ugly at a convention of influencers, particularly among the group considered to be tradwives where secrets are revealed and no one can be trusted when a murder is discovered.

I absolutely loved this. I feel like tradwives are having a moment in literature right now, which I am here for, and Jo Piazza’s in-depth knowledge of different elements of influencer culture and the trad wife movement as a whole is unmatched.

This book is written from a dual point of view and I was completely engaged. I even found myself reading it on the bathroom floor of a hotel room because my children needed to sleep but I needed to find out what happened next.

Judging by her Instagram, Rebecca is the perfect tradwife. When she invites her former close friend, Lizzie, to a luxury desert retreat for influencers, Lizzie can’t help but be intrigued and finds there’s more to the story than she realizes.

Lizzie and Bex were best friends until Bex disappeared after college graduation. Now, fifteen years later, Bex has transformed into a "traditional" wife and influencer with millions of followers, a ranch, a husband named Gray, and a brood of children. When Bex calls Lizzie to invite her to do an exclusive interview, it may be the big break her career needs.

Curious about not just the exclusive, but also why Bex abruptly ended their friendship, Lizzie heads to the MomBomb conference to reconnect with her. But when Gray is found murdered and Bex goes missing, Lizzie finds herself in a world of momfluencers and backstabbing.

Trigger warning: infertility

Why Jackie Loves It:

I do not know how Jo does it! Every book she writes is directly on the pulse of what is going on in the world. This book had EVERYTHING I could have hoped for from Jo and more. The book is fast-paced, the characters are so much fun to read and the social commentary is just beyond. #gifted by Dutton and PRH Audio

There are some genuinely unexpected moments in this popcorn thriller, and I enjoyed them! It also made me think more about the insidiousness of the influencer industry; I appreciate that Jo Piazza portrayed them in a realistic way and situated them within the mystery. Also, it kind of made me feel better about the "gotcha" moments I've experienced while looking at social media...

Everyone is Lying to You is not what I was expecting and I’m so happy about it! This fast paced popcorn thriller is whip smart, witty and a fantastic read.

Told in a dual POV by Bex/Rebecca a high profile social media influencer and her college friend Lizzie. They haven’t seen each other in over a decade when Rebecca contacts Lizzie to come to an influencer conference. Lizzie accepts the invitation and all heck breaks loose.

This is the perfect book to break anyone out of a reading slump. Fast paced and suspenseful, with multilayered characters this book is so much fun.

@duttonbooks @prhaudio @librofm | #partner Jo Piazza can always be counted on to deliver a solid, fun thriller and she’s done it again with 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗜𝗦 𝗟𝗬𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨. In this, she takes on the #tradwifelife, lifting the veil on the seemingly “perfect” lives of these women living like it’s 1950 and literally selling it to their legions of social media followers. At the heart of her story are two women, Lizzie and Bex, who were best friends in college. The two had a falling out years ago, but finally reunite shortly after the story begins.⁣
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Bex, a mega-influencer, lures her old friend, who just happens to be a journalist, to an influencer conference (hilariously called Mom-Bomb) with the promise of a big reveal story that could reignite Lizzie’s flat career. With chapters alternating between the two, the fun begins. There’s everything you might expect in a story about #tradwife influencers going off the rails: drama, deceit, fawning, disappearances, and even…death.⁣
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I loved that Piazza took a good hard look at the tricks and schemes of big time influencers, while also acknowledging just how hooked many of us are on social media. It was both fun and satisfying to listen on audio, with an excellent cast of narrators. For me, this was a perfect story during a very busy time, so easy to go in and out of. I’d call it a definite beach read, and also think it would be great listening for a long drive. 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘓𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘠𝘰𝘶 is out tomorrow! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⁣
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This one was a great popcorn thriller, I flew through and had a lot of fun with it. The momfluencer hustle, the pressure to look perfect and making a living from it were all well done.

This book is written from the alternating perspectives of Lizzie and Rebecca. They were best friends in college but then post-college Bex (as she was then called) ghosted Lizzie. Now years later Lizzie is a journalist with two young kids, and Rebecca is a famous trad-wife influencer, with millions of followers obsessed with her life on the farm with many many kids. Then Rebecca reaches out to Lizzie and asks her to meet up with her at a mom influencer conference - and of course it turns out behind the scenes things are nothing like they appear on social media. And then Rebecca’s husband is murdered and Rebecca disappears, leaving Lizzie to try to figure out what happened.

This was such a fun read - combining a great mystery, a trad wife/influencer satire, and a portrait of friendship, marriage, parenthood, abuse and more - all with a subtle feminist thread running through it. I couldn’t put it down! So, another winner from Jo Piazza, who also impresses me with how she can write in any genre from book to book! Plus if you’re not already following her on Instagram you must, she is so funny!

OOOOOHHHHHH!! This is nice!! Okay, not really. I don't know a whole lot about podcasts or instagram or much social media other than Facebook. But my sister tells me lots of things. I loved the story, but I find it so hard to believe how much money is in it. But I read enough news to know there is. Weird!! One thing, I didn't want to put the book down.

A bit predictable but engaging and brought up a lot of good points about social media and the facade of our favorite pages.

This book was SO good! It was unputdownable. The writing was amazing, the story was compelling and the characters were so well developed. Jo Piazza has become an autobuy author for me. I was thankful to Dutton and NetGalley for an advance copy of this book but ended up buying the audiobook so that I could listen to the full cast narration which was fantastic! I will also add a signed copy of the physical book to my shelves when Jo comes to my local Indie bookstore.

🥰Thank you so much to @duttonbooks for the gifted book!

📖Title: Everyone is Lying to You
✍️Author: Jo Piazza
📅Pub Date: July 15, 2025


🥧I really enjoyed this one, especially in a time when books are failing to hold my interest, this one definitely did! I listened to the whole book basically non-stop!

👗The story is told in from a few different perspectives and all them kept me locked in! All of the characters felt insane to me, but that was part of the fun! Some of the twists had me very shocked 😳 which was a blast!

🥧This story had me thinking deeply about how much attention society gives to influencers and how easily it can become toxic (most of it is). Whatever you do, don't believe everything you see online!

⚠️Um, so many content warnings. This book gets INTENSE and some parts gave me major ick. Soo consider yourself warned. But if you're looking to be equal parts entertained and disturbed, this is probably for you!

Everyone is Lying to You by Jo Piazza ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

This was a highly entertaining popcorn read. Told in alternating POVs, this story unraveled quickly in the best way. Both POVs were successful in building tension and moving the plot along. I loved the influencer conference setting and found that added an element similar to that of “trashy tv”. I found the ending satisfying if a bit predictable.

I always feel conflicted about books with lots of pop culture references because they tend to try to make a statement. But in this case, I felt like this book didn’t try to be something it wasn’t. I didn’t feel like there was a deeper meaning; it was just a solid, entertaining read.

Fans of books about housewives/mothers, books with a focus on influencers, and domestic suspense will enjoy this one.