Friends and Liars: A Novel

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From edge-of-your-seat suspense (Booklist) author Kit Frick comes an insidious thriller about four estranged friends trapped in a powerful familys deadly games at a luxe estate in the Italian countryside.

Its been five years since heiress Clare Monroe tragically died on New Years Eve at her familys opulent Italian palazzo. Since that time, her college friends have harbored a dark secrettheir lies and betrayals led to Clares untimely death.

What happened that fateful night was a horrible accident, but Luca, Harper, Sirina, and David are guilty, nonetheless. And their desperate decision to conceal the truth destroyed their once-close bond.

Now, the estranged friends are each the recipient of an invitation from the Monroes to return to the lakeside palazzo for a long-overdue memorial for Clare. Accepting the Monroes invitation means playing with fire, but they can hardly refuse.

Luca, Harper, Sirina, and David have barely settled into their idyllic accommodations on Lake Como before someone at the memorial party begins targeting them. Haunted by little gifts left in their rooms, taunting notes, and the unshakable sense of being watched, it soon becomes clear that someone on the guest list knows the whole truth about the night Clare diedand the secrets her friends have been keeping. Nothing is as it seems at the palazzo on the lake, and under their tormentors vengeful gaze, their secretsand their livesare in danger.

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"FRIENDS AND LIARShas all the ingredients of a delicious thriller - the lush setting of Italy's Lake Como, a narrative that hopscotches between pastand present,and a group of friends who hold secrets more closely than they do each other. And that ending is a chef's kiss!" -- Sarah Pekkanen, #1 New York Times bestselling authorof HOUSE OF GLASS and THE LOCKED WARD

Author Bio

Kit Frick is a MacDowell Fellow and International Thriller Writers Award finalist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and received her MFA from Syracuse University.She is the author of the adult suspense novelsThe SplitandFriends and Liars, the young adult thrillersBefore We Were Sorry(originally published asSee All the Stars),All Eyes on Us,I Killed Zoe Spanos,Very Bad People, andThe Reunion, and the poetry collectionA Small Rising Up in the Lungs.Kit loves a good mystery but has only ever killed her characters. Honest. Visit Kit online atKitFrick.comand on Instagram @KitFrick.