тАЬA superb thriller and a truly engrossing read.тАЭтАФRuth Ware,┬аNew York Times┬аbestselling author of┬аIn a Dark, Dark Wood┬аand┬аThe Woman in Cabin 10
When Roy meets a wealthy widow online, he can hardly believe his luck. Just like Patricia HighsmithтАЩs Tom Ripley, Roy is a man who lives to deceiveтАФand everything about Betty suggests sheтАЩs an easy mark. HeтАЩs confident that his scheme to swindle her will be a success. After all, heтАЩs done this before.
As this remarkable feat of storytelling weaves together RoyтАЩs and BettyтАЩs futures, it also unwinds the past. Dancing across more than half a centuryтАФdecades that encompass unthinkable cruelty, extraordinary resilience, and remarkable kindnessтАФit takes us right back to the beginning of their very different lives, following the twists and turns through childhood, an adolescence and young adulthood indelibly marked by war, and an adult existence carved out amid a world still reeling from its aftermath.
As RoyтАЩs sins stack up against the burdens Betty carries, it becomes a story of salvation, and survivalтАФand for Roy and Betty, there is a reckoning to be made when the endgame of RoyтАЩs crooked plot plays out.┬аSome things can never be forgotten. Or forgiven.
┬аNicholas Searle grew up in the southwest of England and studied languages at the University of Bath. He spent more years than he cares to remember in public service before deciding in 2011 to leave and begin writing fiction. The Good Liar is his first novel. Nicholas lives in the north of England.