Book : The Liars Girl - Catherine Ryan Howard

-Titulo Original : The Liars Girl

-Fabricante :

Blackstone Publishing

-Descripcion Original:

2019 Edgar Award nominee for Best Novel Will Hurley was an attractive, charming, and impressive student at Dublin s elite St. Johns College and Irelands most prolific serial killer. Having stalked his five young victims, he drowned them in the muddy waters of the Grand Canal. Sentenced to life imprisonment when he was just nineteen, Will is locked away in the citys Central Psychiatric Hospital. Freshman Alison Smith moved to the Big Smoke to enroll in St. Johns and soon fell hard for Will Hurley. Her world bloomed ... and then imploded when Liz, her best friend, became the latest victim of the Canal Killer and the Canal Killer turned out to be the boy whod been sleeping in her bed. Alison fled to the Netherlands and, in ten years, has never once looked back. When a young womans body is found in the Grand Canal, Garda detectives visit Will to see if he can assist them in solving what looks like a copycat killing. Instead, Will tells them he has something new to confess but theres only one person hes prepared to confess it to. The last thing Alison wants is to be pulled back into the past shes worked so hard to leave behind. Reluctantly, she returns to the city she hasnt set foot in for more than a decade to face the man who murdered the woman she was supposed to become. Only to discover that, until now, Will has left out the worst part of all ... From School Library Journal Twenty-nine-year-old Alison has lived in the Netherlands for the past 10 years, finishing college and starting her professional life. She has never been back to Dublin, not even to visit her parents. Ten years ago, her boyfriend, Will, confessed to multiple murders, and the knowledge that she was in love with a convicted serial killer sends Alison reeling. Will is behind bars, yet the killings have resumed, and the Dublin police are desperate to stop them. Alison agrees to come back, speak to Will, and try to get helpful information. But all is not as it seems, and Alison is shocked to learn the truth. This novel is fast-paced and intriguing, keeping readers guessing until nearly the end. However, Alison prefers to hide rather than face up to reality, which makes sense when she is 19 but wears thin by age 29. Also, readers might get tripped up on the Irish vernacular, if they are only familiar with American English. VERDICT Overall a fun mystery. Purchase where fans of crime fiction abound.-Kristen Rademacher, Marist High School, IL Review A very satisfying and twisty tale. --Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author A twisty read in which the tragedies extend beyond the murders. Has a mans life been ruined by a crime he did not commit? If so, why did he confess? --Cleveland Plain Dealer (Grade A) The Liars Girl takes us back to the canals of Dublin in a story packed with psychological trickery and playing on the theme of the bad boy, and a very bad boy indeed. What do you do when you realize your boyfriend is a killer? --Electric Literature About the Author Catherine Ryan Howard is an internationally bestselling crime writer from Cork, Ireland. Her most recent novel, 56 Days, was an Irish no. 1 bestseller, won Crime Fiction Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and was named a best thriller of 2021 by the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Irish Times. Her previous work has been shortlisted for the Edgar Award for Best Novel, the CWA’s John Creasey New Blood and Ian Fleming Steel Daggers and Irish Crime Novel of the Year multiple times. She lives in Dublin