Count My Lies

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The very definition of a page-turner! This smart, original, twisty story had me gripped from the first to the last page. Liane Moriarty, New York Times bestselling author

A read-in-one-night suspense thriller narrated by a compulsive liar whose little white lies allow her to enter into the life and comfort of a wealthy married couple who are harboring much darker secrets themselves. For the millions of us still chasing those gone girls, this is perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Lucy Foley, and Laura Dave.

Sloane Caraway is a liar.

Harmless lies, mostly, to make her self-proclaimed sad, little life a bit more interesting.

So when Sloane sees a young girl in tears at a park one afternoon, she cant help herselfshe tells the girls (very attractive) dad shes a nurse and helps him pull a bee stinger from the girls foot.

With this lie, and chance encounter, Sloane becomes the nanny for the wealthy, and privileged Jay and Violet Lockhart. The perfect New York couple, with a brownstone, a daughter in private school, and summers on Block Island.

But maybe Sloane isnt the only one lying, and all thats picture-perfect harbors a much more dangerous truth. To say anything more is to spoil the most exciting, twisty, and bitingly smart suspense novel to come out in years.

The thing about lies is that they add up, form their own truth and a twisted prison of a world. And in Count My Lies, Sophie Stava spins a breakneck, unputdownable thriller about the secrets we keep, and the terrifying dangers that lurk just under the images we spend so much time trying to maintain.

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This twisty debut novel about a young woman named Sloane, a habitual liar who finds work as a nanny for a 'perfect' New York couple, has garnered comparisons to Gone Girl. The Washington Post

Devilishly plotted . . . Stava keeps the pages turning. This is good fun. Publishers Weekly

This compelling, tautly plotted book will appeal not only to lovers of Gone Girlstyle tales of suspense but anyone with a taste for smart, well-crafted fiction. A page-turning thrill-ride of a story from a debut novelist. Kirkus Reviews

[A] gripping debut thriller . . . The author has taken on quite a challenge here, and she pulls it off spectacularly. Booklist

Author Bio

Sophie Stava received her BA in English literature from UC Santa Barbara. She currently resides in Southern California with her family.