This is Why We Lied – ARC Book Review

The next thrilling suspense featuring Will Trent and Sara Linton from Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Girls and After That Night!

Everyone here is a liar, but only one of us is a killer…

A secluded cabin retreat

For GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton, McAlpine Lodge seems like the ideal getaway to celebrate their honeymoon. Set on a gorgeous, off-the-grid mountaintop property, it’s the perfect place to unplug and reconnect. Until a bone-chilling scream cuts through the night.

A murderer in their midst

Mercy McAlpine, the manager of the Lodge, is dead. With a vicious storm raging and the one access road to the property washed out, the murderer must be someone on the mountain. But as Will and Sara investigate the McAlpine family and the other guests, they realize that everyone here is lying….Lying about their past. Lying to their family. Lying to themselves.

Who killed Mercy McAlpine?

It soon becomes clear that normal rules don’t apply at McAlpine Lodge, and Will and Sara are going to have to watch their step at every turn. Trapped on the resort, they must untangle a decades-old web of secrets to discover what happened to Mercy. And with the killer poised to strike again, the trip of a lifetime becomes a race against the clock…

I got an invitation to review this book and it was actually a privilege to get an invitation to read one of my favorite thriller author’s latest novels.–Karin Slaughter’s latest novel and Will Trent series Book 12.

Will and Sara go to a secluded cabin resort owned by a family McAlpine. The couple try to enjoy their small honeymoon retreat until Will comes across the Mercy McAlpine, the manager of the cabin fatally stabbed. Realizing that someone in the cabin is the murderer, Will calls his GBI team and sets to find the murderer. They find that Mercy has been living a life of hell and that most of her family members were treating her badly…and nearly everyone wanted Mercy dead.

This was a fast-paced thriller. Not only that, but it was also unputdownable and a page turner as well. As there are so many suspects in the book, we as readers have to guess which of them actually murdered Mercy brutally. The whole story was well written and knowing how the author leads the reader, I was instantly hooked into the story. I also like the fact that one of the suspects Dave who is Mercy’s husband is also grew up with Will in the orphanage that Dave still calls him by the nickname he had been given. The ending was completely unexpected. Even though this book was very long, I wasn’t bored at all and I actually enjoyed reading this thriller. And I cannot wait to read more of Will Trent’s series or Karin Slaughter’s next novel! Worth five stars.

Many thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC. The review is based on my honest opinion only.