The lying game /
Ware, Ruth,
The lying game / - First Scout Press hardcover edition. - 370 pages ; 24 cm
On a cool June morning, a woman is walking her dog in the idyllic coastal village of Salten along a tidal estuary known as the Reach. Before she can stop him, the dog charges into the water to retrieve what first appears to be a wayward stick, but to her horror, turns out to be something much more sinister. The next morning, three women in and around London -- Fatima, Thea, and Isabel -- receive the text they had always hoped would never come, from the fourth in their formerly inseparable clique, Kate, that says only, "I need you." The four girls were best friends at Salten, a second rate boarding school set near the cliffs of the English Channel. Each different in their own way, the four became inseparable and were notorious for playing the Lying Game, telling lies at every turn to both fellow boarders and faculty, with varying states of serious and flippant nature that were disturbing enough to ensure that everyone steered clear of them. The myriad and complicated rules of the game are strict: no lying to each other -- ever. Bail on the lie when it becomes clear it is about to be found out. But their little game had consequences, and the girls were all expelled in their final year of school under mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of the school's eccentric art teacher, Ambrose, who also happened to be Kate's father...
9781501156007 (hardcover) 1501156004 (hardcover) 9781501156205 1501156209
2017943545
Truthfulness and falsehood--Fiction.
Secrecy--Fiction.
Female friendship--Fiction.
Friendship in adolescence--Fiction.
Boarding schools--Fiction.
Truthfulness and falsehood--Fiction.
England, Southern--Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Psychological fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction.)
Suspense fiction.
PR6123.A745 / L95 2017b
823/.92
The lying game / - First Scout Press hardcover edition. - 370 pages ; 24 cm
On a cool June morning, a woman is walking her dog in the idyllic coastal village of Salten along a tidal estuary known as the Reach. Before she can stop him, the dog charges into the water to retrieve what first appears to be a wayward stick, but to her horror, turns out to be something much more sinister. The next morning, three women in and around London -- Fatima, Thea, and Isabel -- receive the text they had always hoped would never come, from the fourth in their formerly inseparable clique, Kate, that says only, "I need you." The four girls were best friends at Salten, a second rate boarding school set near the cliffs of the English Channel. Each different in their own way, the four became inseparable and were notorious for playing the Lying Game, telling lies at every turn to both fellow boarders and faculty, with varying states of serious and flippant nature that were disturbing enough to ensure that everyone steered clear of them. The myriad and complicated rules of the game are strict: no lying to each other -- ever. Bail on the lie when it becomes clear it is about to be found out. But their little game had consequences, and the girls were all expelled in their final year of school under mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of the school's eccentric art teacher, Ambrose, who also happened to be Kate's father...
9781501156007 (hardcover) 1501156004 (hardcover) 9781501156205 1501156209
2017943545
Truthfulness and falsehood--Fiction.
Secrecy--Fiction.
Female friendship--Fiction.
Friendship in adolescence--Fiction.
Boarding schools--Fiction.
Truthfulness and falsehood--Fiction.
England, Southern--Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Psychological fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction.)
Suspense fiction.
PR6123.A745 / L95 2017b
823/.92