The Lying Game
I had a life anyone would kill for. Then someone did. The worst part of being dead is that there's nothing left to live for. No more kisses. No more secrets. No more gossip. It's enough to kill a girl all over again. But I'm about to get something no one else does
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Seventeen years after their final term at Salten House, illustrator Isa Wilde gets a three-word text from her old school friend Kate. A child has dragged a bone out of the salt marsh near the old school, and the four friends have to come back and decide what to do about a secret from 1999.
No. The Lying Game is a standalone Ruth Ware thriller. Ware has written several other standalones including The Woman in Cabin 10 and One by One.
No. The Lying Game by Ruth Ware (2017) is unrelated to Sara Shepard's YA Lying Game series, despite the title overlap.
The Lying Game was written by Ruth Ware, published in 2017 by Pocket Books.
The Lying Game is 440 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Lying Game takes most readers 7 to 10 hours to finish.
The Lying Game is a standalone novel by Ruth Ware, not part of a series.
The Lying Game is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.