Everyone Here Is Lying
by Shari Lapena
Domestic Thriller
Suspense
Mystery
336 Pages
"The most addictive book I've read in ages — so slick and disquieting and clever. Just brilliant."
Synopsis
Welcome to Stanhope — a safe neighborhood, a place for families. William Wooler presents himself as exactly that kind of family man. But his afternoon has gone badly: an affair ended horribly at a motel up the road. When he returns home devastated and angry to find his nine-year-old daughter Avery unexpectedly there, he loses his temper. Hours later, Avery is declared missing. As police begin interviewing the family and neighbors, a troubling pattern emerges: everyone has something to hide, and no one's story quite lines up. An anonymous tip. A suspicious teenager. A neighbor who saw something — or claims to have. In Everyone Here Is Lying, Shari Lapena peels back the respectable surface of a quiet street to reveal the lies underneath, building tension with each new revelation until a final twist that no one will see coming.
Our Take
If you've ever read Shari Lapena before, you know exactly what you're getting — and Everyone Here Is Lying delivers it at peak form. The Globe and Mail called it the best of her seven novels, and it's easy to see why: the premise is airtight, the pacing is relentless, and the rotating cast of unreliable neighbors gives Lapena maximum room to deploy her signature misdirection. Every new character introduced seems helpful until they aren't, and by the final pages, the full shape of the deception clicks into place with the satisfying force of a well-engineered trap. Lisa Jewell devoured it in under ten hours and called it the most addictive book she'd read in ages. The Globe and Mail said it begins with a bang and ends with a twist no one will guess. Both assessments are accurate. Fans of Lapena's own The Couple Next Door, Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies, and Lisa Jewell's The Family Remains will find this impossible to put down.
