The Liar's Girl
by Catherine Ryan Howard
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Pub Date Feb 27 2018 | Archive Date Feb 28 2018
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Description
HER FIRST LOVE CONFESSED TO FIVE MURDERS… BUT THE TRUTH WAS SO MUCH WORSE.
THE LIAR’S GIRL [Blackstone Publishing; February 27, 2018; hardcover, e-book, audiobook] is a riveting new psychological thriller, by Catherine Ryan Howard, award-winning and USA Today best-selling author of Distress Signals.
Will Hurley was an attractive, charming, and impressive student at Dublin’s elite St. John’s College—and Ireland’s most prolific serial killer. Having stalked his five young victims, he drowned them in the muddy waters of the Grand Canal. Sentenced to life imprisonment when he was just nineteen, Will is locked away in the city’s Central Psychiatric Hospital.
Freshman Alison Smith moved to the Big Smoke to enroll in St. John’s and soon fell hard for Will Hurley. Her world bloomed … and then imploded when Liz, her best friend, became the latest victim of the Canal Killer—and the Canal Killer turned out to be the boy who’d been sleeping in her bed. Alison fled to the Netherlands, and, in ten years, has never once looked back.
When a young woman’s body is found in the Grand Canal, Garda detectives visit Will to see if he can assist them in solving what looks like a copycat killing. Instead, Will tells them he has something new to confess—but there’s only one person he’s prepared to confess it to.
The last thing Alison wants is to be pulled back into the past she’s worked so hard to leave behind. Reluctantly, she returns to the city she hasn’t set foot in for more than a decade to face the man who murdered the woman she was supposed to become.
Only to discover that, until now, Will has left out the worst part of all …
A Note From the Publisher
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Catherine Ryan Howard was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1982. Prior to writing full time, Catherine worked as a campsite courier in France and a front-desk agent in a hotel in Walt Disney World, Florida, and most recently as a social media marketer for a major publisher. Howard’s first novel Distress Signals was a USA Today bestseller, winner of the 2017 Independent Press Award for Mystery, and was shortlisted for the 2017 CWA New Blood Dagger Award..
Catherine Ryan Howard was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1982. Prior to writing full time, Catherine worked as a campsite courier in France and a front-desk agent in a hotel in Walt Disney World, Florida, and most recently as a social media marketer for a major publisher. Howard’s first novel Distress Signals was a USA Today bestseller, winner of the 2017 Independent Press Award for Mystery, and was shortlisted for the 2017 CWA New Blood Dagger Award..
Advance Praise
"...exceptional...Howard keeps the reader turning the pages right through to the shocking and satisfying resolution."
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"Readers of Paula Hawkins, Tana French, and Ruth Ware will love this exceptionally well-crafted thriller."
—Library Journal, Starred Review
"Another impressive writer to watch in the thriller genre."
-Michele Leber, Booklist
“A meticulous, devious plot, superb writing, and vivid, sympathetic characters would be enough to make The Liar’s Girl a stand-out read, but its dark, sad, inevitable ending makes it a triumph.”
—Eric Rickstad, New York Times bestselling author of The Names of Dead Girls
“Read The Liar’s Girl with the lights on. A thrilling whodunit with a shocking final twist.”
—A. J. Banner, USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author
“The Liar’s Girl is an addictive page-turner that asks, would you stand by someone you loved if he was accused of murder? The set-up is horribly believable as we toggle between the past and present lives of two adults reconciling themselves to the consequences of their teenage immaturity. Catherine Ryan Howard ladles out the suspense like spoonfuls of sugar, building to a heady rush of tension—and a heartbreaking final twist in the tale.”
—Jo Furniss, author of the Amazon bestseller All the Little Children
“The Liar’s Girl is a haunting thriller about one woman’s attempt to escape a horrific past…and her inability to fully do so. I found myself continually surprised and even shocked by the twists and turns in the plot. This is a fast-moving, crackling good novel.”
—David Bell, author of Bring Her Home
Marketing Plan
National Review Coverage and Interviews with the Author
Outreach to Mystery Publications and Bloggers
Social Media Campaign
National Review Coverage and Interviews with the Author
Outreach to Mystery Publications and Bloggers
Social Media Campaign
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781504782548 |
| PRICE | $24.99 (USD) |
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