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College freshman, Alison, can't wait to attend college with her best friend Liz. Shortly after starting school, Alison meets Will, a charming, handsome man and they quickly start dating. Alison is enamored by Will, and hates being apart from him, even though it's caused some strain with Liz.

When women from the college start turning up dead, the campus is in a frenzy, and the police are on the hunt for the Canal Killer. When Liz ends up being one of the murdered women, Alison's life changes forever...especially when her boyfriend Will is implicated in the murder. Ultimately, Will confesses and Alison is in a state of disbelief.

Ten years later, Will is locked up in a mental hospital, but women start turning up dead again, in the same way as before. Will tells the police that he has information that can help them, but wont talk to anyone but Alison. Dragged back into her past, Alison can't believe Will when he professes that he was innocent - that he was coerced into confessing.

Is Will telling the truth? What really happened ten years ago, and why has it started happening again? Alison is determined to find out.

The premise of The Liar's Girl was instantly appealing to me, and I wasn't let down! The book had my interest from the very first page, and sucked me into the world of Alison and Will. The book was told through alternating time periods, Alison in the present and Alison in the past, so the reader is able to slowly understand how everything happened ten years prior, the dissolution of Alison and Liz's friendship, and the relationship that develops between Alison and Will. This format worked really well for this book, and I loved being able to see what happened in the past and relate it to Alison's present.

The book was tense and fast paced, which I really enjoyed. As more women turn up missing or dead, the tension increases as the police (and Alison) scramble to figure out whether or not Will is involved. As the pieces of the puzzle started to fall into place, I was really happy with how things played out. I absolutely loved the ending of the book - I was expecting one final twist, but expected it to be something different, so I was glad to be caught off my game!

All in all, I loved this book and would definitely recommend it to fans of the psychological thriller genre! I've had Catherine Ryan Howard's book Distress Signals on my to-read list for a while, so now I'll have to move it up and read it sooner!


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The Liar Girl Catherine Ryan Howard 9781504782548 Books Reviews

I looked so forward to reading this story. I actually moved through it very quickly (in less than one day), anxious to see how it turned out. The book was paced well and I enjoyed the slow build and the different viewpoints of the characters. I also enjoyed going through each of them to try to figure out who was guilty.

Unfortunately, I had some issues with the book that detracted from my enjoyment of it. Several of the situations just felt unrealistic to me. The only way I can explain that is by using SPOILERS

1. How did the police find Alison in the first place? She'd fled the country ten years prior and deliberately avoided an online presence so no one could locate her. I first thought the detectives must have contacted her parents, but after reading how shocked the parents were that she was back in Ireland for the first time in a decade, I realized they hadn't. Did they have a national database that lists every citizen and where they reside? Did they peruse visa records? Interpol? The book never says although I wish it had; it bugged me throughout the book. Even Alison didn't seem curious when the two men showed up on her doorstep. She was obviously concerned with facing the past although how she was discovered? Not so much.

2. The murderer wasn't fully fleshed out and his reason for doing what he did didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. I would have liked a better understanding of what made him tick, including his past. I figured him out before the halfway point in the book.

3. My biggest peeve was the main character. Alison went from being a scared mouse, fleeing her home country and avoiding life in general, to returning and in short order, becoming a super detective. First of all, I don't think in real life the authorities would share info/videos/files and drive people around while they are investigating a case, however, at this point, Alison began to do her own sleuthing where she finally broke the case in a matter of days before the police were able to. (MInd you, they had been working on this case on and off for 10 years.) That she would discover the identity of the murderer on Google was the icing on the cake! ;-)

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Overall, I thought the premise was excellent and I enjoyed much of the book, however, when details don't mesh or seem implausible, it definitely takes away from my overall enjoyment of the work. I give this three stars. Having said all that, I would read this author again.
College freshman, Alison, can't wait to attend college with her best friend Liz. Shortly after starting school, Alison meets Will, a charming, handsome man and they quickly start dating. Alison is enamored by Will, and hates being apart from him, even though it's caused some strain with Liz.

When women from the college start turning up dead, the campus is in a frenzy, and the police are on the hunt for the Canal Killer. When Liz ends up being one of the murdered women, Alison's life changes forever...especially when her boyfriend Will is implicated in the murder. Ultimately, Will confesses and Alison is in a state of disbelief.

Ten years later, Will is locked up in a mental hospital, but women start turning up dead again, in the same way as before. Will tells the police that he has information that can help them, but wont talk to anyone but Alison. Dragged back into her past, Alison can't believe Will when he professes that he was innocent - that he was coerced into confessing.

Is Will telling the truth? What really happened ten years ago, and why has it started happening again? Alison is determined to find out.

The premise of The Liar's Girl was instantly appealing to me, and I wasn't let down! The book had my interest from the very first page, and sucked me into the world of Alison and Will. The book was told through alternating time periods, Alison in the present and Alison in the past, so the reader is able to slowly understand how everything happened ten years prior, the dissolution of Alison and Liz's friendship, and the relationship that develops between Alison and Will. This format worked really well for this book, and I loved being able to see what happened in the past and relate it to Alison's present.

The book was tense and fast paced, which I really enjoyed. As more women turn up missing or dead, the tension increases as the police (and Alison) scramble to figure out whether or not Will is involved. As the pieces of the puzzle started to fall into place, I was really happy with how things played out. I absolutely loved the ending of the book - I was expecting one final twist, but expected it to be something different, so I was glad to be caught off my game!

All in all, I loved this book and would definitely recommend it to fans of the psychological thriller genre! I've had Catherine Ryan Howard's book Distress Signals on my to-read list for a while, so now I'll have to move it up and read it sooner!