Sneak a peek "The last time I lied" - Riley Sager

Description

Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their tiny cabin at Camp Nightingale. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and first-time camper Emma Davis, the youngest of the group. The games ended when Emma sleepily watched the others sneak out of the cabin in the dead of night. The last she--or anyone--saw of them was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her, hushing Emma with a finger pressed to her lips.

Now a rising star in the New York art scene, Emma turns her past into paintings--massive canvases filled with dark leaves and gnarled branches that cover ghostly shapes in white dresses. The paintings catch the attention of Francesca Harris-White, the socialite and wealthy owner of Camp Nightingale. When Francesca implores her to return to the newly reopened camp as a painting instructor, Emma sees an opportunity to try to find out what really happened to her friends.

Yet it's immediately clear that all is not right at Camp Nightingale. Already haunted by memories from fifteen years ago, Emma discovers a security camera pointed directly at her cabin, mounting mistrust from Francesca and, most disturbing of all, cryptic clues Vivian left behind about the camp's twisted origins. As she digs deeper, Emma finds herself sorting through lies from the past while facing threats from both man and nature in the present.

And the closer she gets to the truth about Camp Nightingale, the more she realizes it may come at a deadly price.

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The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Coming across Riley Sager’s books was a lucky accident and so I signed myself up for a mini-marathon, because his two thrillers are a short collection but satisfying and quick to read. “The last time I lied” is visibly better than his first novel – “Final girls” – even though the style is similar, but the writing is more fluid and intriguing, the action more complex and suspenseful. This second book of Sager’s dethrones his first, no hesitation, I read in a single day, the plot that much interesting. It was a book with well kept secrets, that kept you guessing, not letting even a crumb be revealed until the end when the turn of events hits you good. A story full of lies that trick the reader, the truth eluding you but its chains not letting you go.

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