Such Charming Liars - by Karen M McManus

About the Book

Sixteen-year-old Kat's con-artist mom takes on one last heist before going straight for good, but the job takes a deadly turn.

Book Synopsis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The newest mystery from the author One of Us Is Lying, the Queen of thrillers, Karen M. McManus! When mother-daughter grifters set out on their final job, the heist gets deadly and dangerously personal.

For all of Kat's life, it's just been her and her mother, Jamie--except for the forty-eight hours when Jamie was married and Kat had a stepbrother, Liam. That all ended in an epic divorce, and Kat and Liam haven't spoken since.

Now Jamie is a jewel thief trying to go straight, but she has one last job--at billionaire Ross Sutherland's birthday party. And Kat has figured out a way to tag along. What Kat doesn't know, though, is that there are two surprise guests at the dazzling Sutherland compound that weekend. The last two people she wants to run into. Liam and his father--a serial scammer who has his sights set on Ross Sutherland's youngest daughter.

Kat and Liam are on a collision course to disaster, and when a Sutherland dies, they realize they might actually be in the killer's crosshairs themselves. Somehow Kat and Liam are the new targets, and they can't trust anyone--except each other.

Or can they? Because if there's one thing both Kat and Liam know, it's how to lie. They learned from the best.

Review Quotes

★ "McManus's plot goes into overdrive with ingenious and unexpected twists and turns, including a particularly satisfying double twist at the end....McManus fans will devour this, and she will certainly earn some new fans as well." --Booklist, starred review

★ "This novel's twists take readers on a wild ride until the very last page....This might be McManus's best yet." --School Library Journal, starred review

"The narrative slips into high gear, executing hairpin twists and exploding bombshells that catapult the tale to an electrifying close." --Publishers Weekly

"An unputdownable, deliciously twisty mystery." --Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

Karen M. McManus is a #1 New York Times and international bestselling author of young adult thrillers. Her books include the One of Us Is Lying series, which has been turned into a television show on Peacock, as well as the standalone novels Two Can Keep a Secret, The Cousins, You'll Be the Death of Me, Nothing More to Tell, and Such Charming Liars. Karen's critically acclaimed, award-winning work has been translated into more than forty languages.