Nine Liars: A Truly Devious Novel
Maureen Johnson
Amazon Summary:
Stevie Bell solved the case of Truly Devious, and now she’s taking her detecting skills abroad when she becomes embroiled in a mystery from 1990s England. Another pulse-pounding and laugh-out-loud stand-alone mystery from New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson. Senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie Bell isn’t going well. Her boyfriend, David, is studying in London. Her friends are obsessed with college applications. With the cold case of the century solved, Stevie is adrift. There is nothing to distract her from the questions pinging around her brain—questions about college, love, and life in general. Relief comes when David invites Stevie and her friends to join him for study abroad, and his new friend Izzy introduces her to a double-murder cold case. In 1995, nine friends from Cambridge University went to a country house and played a drunken game of hide-and-seek. Two were found in the woodshed the next day, murdered with an ax. The case was assumed to be a burglary gone wrong, but one of the remaining seven saw something she can’t explain. This was no break-in. Someone’s lying about what happened in the woodshed. Seven suspects. Two murders. One killer still playing a deadly game.
My Review:
9/10
Before I even start my review, I wanted to say thank you to the HarperCollins team for approving me for this title on NetGalley. That's not all though. Around a month or two ago, Maureen Johnson was holding a giveaway, where there were only 150 printed ARC's circulating the earth, and I won a copy of one of them. It is truly a beautiful thing, and I cherish it. This was the post on Instagram I created and here is what the beautiful book looks like. So thank you Maureen for picking me as a winner!
Now let me get onto the review portion of this review. I am first going to branch out and say that I liked this book much more than the other standalone novel, The Box In The Woods, for one reason. There were more suspects and characters involved in the story. I found it gave my imagination more to work with, and made the puzzle of who the murderer was, more difficult to solve. It was a thinker.
Another reason I enjoyed reading this novel is because there were two mysteries going on simultaneously. Not just who the murderer was, but also a missing persons case. This novel I felt stayed more true to the original trilogy. I mean this in a way that the murder took place in the 90's and it is affecting the missing persons case today. So kudos to the author for that. There is nothing else to really say.
I am very glad I read this book, and I think any mystery fan would feel the same way about it. If you are not a huge reader but are a fan of:
- Knives Out
- Clue
- One Of Us Is Lying
This book might be just the thing to help you fall in love with reading.
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