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"An Honest Lie is riveting suspense, but it’s also a scream of defiance, a howl of rage." --#1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover
They've taken your friend, but only to get to you. What do you do?
Lorraine—“Rainy”—lives at the top of Tiger Mountain. Remote, moody, cloistered in pine trees and fog, it’s a sanctuary, a new life. She can hide from the disturbing past she wants to forget.
If she’s allowed to.
When Rainy reluctantly agrees to a girls’ weekend in Vegas, she’s prepared for an exhausting parade of shots and slot machines. But after a wild night, her friend Braithe doesn’t come back to the hotel room.
And then Rainy gets the text message, sent from Braithe’s phone: someone has her. But Rainy is who they really want, and Rainy knows why.
What follows is a twisted, shocking journey on the knife-edge of life and death. If she wants to save Braithe—and herself—the only way is to step back into the past.
Looking for more great reads by Tarryn Fisher? Don't miss Never Never, The Wives and The Wrong Family!
- Print length336 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherGraydon House
- Publication dateApril 26, 2022
- Dimensions5.3 x 0.81 x 7.85 inches
- ISBN-101525811576
- ISBN-13978-1525811579
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"Dark, disturbing and deliciously addictive.”--B.A. Paris, New York Times bestselling author of The Therapist
"From the first page to the last, An Honest Lie by Tarryn Fisher will leave you breathless."--PopSugar
“[An] exhilarating, action-packed finale. Readers will cheer as Rainy risks everything to bring down the man who stole her childhood. Fisher delivers the goods.”--Publishers Weekly
"Nice finesse in the storytelling."--Toronto Star
"A wholly original story of two women with dark pasts on a crash course with one another. This smart, claustrophobic thriller will keep you up reading…and just plain keep you up at night." —Andrea Dunlop, author of We Came Here to Forget, on The Wrong Family
"Fisher’s latest thriller is electric, like riding a roller coaster in the dark. Hairpin turns plummet to heart-stopping depths. You won’t devour this book. It will devour you." —Author Tess Callahan on The Wrong Family
"The Wives author delivers another un-put-downable psychological thriller." —E! on The Wrong Family
"Utterly absorbing." —PopSugar on The Wrong Family
"Nothing is as it seems in this twisty new thriller." —Bustle on The Wrong Family
"You'll have whiplash until the very end. The Wives will leave the most sure-footed reader uneasy until the last word is read." —Colleen Hoover, #1 New York Times bestselling author
"Fans of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl will revel in The Wives…. Fisher's story, like the score of a film, builds to an emotional and psychological crescendo that will keep readers on their toes until its final page." —USA TODAY
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- Publisher : Graydon House; Original edition (April 26, 2022)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 336 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1525811576
- ISBN-13 : 978-1525811579
- Item Weight : 8.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.3 x 0.81 x 7.85 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #52,683 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #277 in Domestic Thrillers (Books)
- #2,000 in Psychological Thrillers (Books)
- #6,541 in Suspense Thrillers
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Rainy, an artist by trade, has recently moved to the mountains of Washington for her boyfriend, Grant, exchanging the blur of Manhattan for the quiet life. She wants to give him everything, so she goes along with making friends with the wives' of his friends, even accepting a trip to Las Vegas, a place she never wanted to go back to. The trip, though laced with jealous feelings and the one-upping nature of women, feels almost normal. There's clubs, shots, dancing, and pool time. She feels closer to Braithe, she thinks she might have a break through with Tara, and the other girls begin to show their true personality. There's drunken behavior and bonding moments. There's also a tension there underneath the surface, one that Rainy believes is connected to her past, but it isn't until she receives a text from Braithe's phone that she knows her past has come for her. What follows isn't the Las Vegas trip she planned for, but the terrifying escape from her past that she has spent avoiding.
I love a good feminist thriller and this one has all the makings of one. The girls are naturally catty, I love that Tarryn doesn't lie about the nature of women in a time where we form these opinions so young, she lets the women be, it is their strength when the time comes. There's no faking that friendships are perfect, that there isn't always an undertone of competition and fear laced in it. That the insecurity isn't there. It just so happens that Rainy's insecurity is much larger than anyone else's and it has nothing to do with her looks or her personality. Rainy is insecure about her past and when it comes for her, she cannot allow herself to be the young follower she once was, instead she must step up, for herself and for the women she has befriended and unwillingly put in this position. It's a haunted tail of love, loss, and the things we let slide by using religion as a reason.
I always love Tarryn Fisher's work, I am a true fangirl who believes she can do no wrong, but I will say this is the best release from her out of the past three novels. This one is unique, standout, and emotionally riveting. I couldn't put it down and I hope you won't be able to either.
I could not put this book down if you paid me to. It was empowering, twisted & kept me to edge of my seat until the literal end.
If she’s allowed to.
When Rainy reluctantly agrees to a girls’ weekend in Vegas, she’s prepared for an exhausting parade of shots and slot machines. But after a wild night, her friend Braithe doesn’t come back to the hotel room.
And then Rainy gets the text message, sent from Braithe’s phone: someone has her. But Rainy is who they really want, and Rainy knows why.
What follows is a twisted, shocking journey on the knife-edge of life and death. If she wants to save Braithe—and herself—the only way is to step back into the past.
My Thoughts:
Alternating timelines in An Honest Lie introduce Rainy, our protagonist, and take us on her journey from the past into the present. I knew we were in for trouble when she agrees to go along on a trip with the wives of her boyfriend’s friends. The trip will take her back to the past, a place she would never want to revisit.
As she senses something dark about the women, especially a couple of them, and how this darkness is about to pull her back to her own dark past, I kept hoping that she would just leave. No good could come of this time spent with women who had their own agendas.
I kept reading, wanting everything to work out for her, as there was something about her life, past and present, that stirred up memories of my own, reminders of lives everyone hopes to stay buried. 4.5 stars.
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Lorraine—“Rainy”—lives at the top of Tiger Mountain. Remote, moody, cloistered in pine trees and fog, it’s a sanctuary, a new life. She can hide from the disturbing past she wants to forget. If she’s allowed to. When Rainy reluctantly agrees to a girls’ weekend in Vegas, she’s prepared for an exhausting parade of shots and slot machines. But after a wild night, her friend Braithe doesn’t come back to the hotel room. And then Rainy gets the text message, sent from Braithe’s phone: someone has her. But Rainy is who they really want, and Rainy knows why.
If you know me, you know I love Tarryn Fisher and her books. This one was another hit for me. It has a secretive cult, a group of snarky friends, and a great mystery. I also loved that part of the story took place in Washington, as a majority of her stories do. Living in Seattle, I’m super familiar with the area so that it is an added bonus to read about. Overall, I loved the characters in this book, especially the sides of them that were not so likable. I won’t say much more, because you should go into this blind, but if you haven’t picked this up yet, you should!
We get back and forth then and now chapters, narrated by our main character Rainy/Summer. We get the “then” chapters as flashbacks to her youth. The trauma she grew up enveloped in and how she escaped it. In our “now” chapters, we follow her during a weekend in Vegas gone wrong when one of her friends ends up taken and the events that unfold around it.
The book is packed with suspense as it unfolds in both periods in time, and I was on the edge of my seat the entire book. From cover to cover, as we meet both versions of Rainy/Summer, I was dying to know where the story was going and how it all ends. It was a great suspense, but just a bit slower paced.
I cannot wait for what Tarryn will come up with next!
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We have two storylines running parallel - a past and present. The past sees Rainy’s childhood as she and her mother move to a compound with an old friend and as it transpires they join his cult. In the present we have Rainy in her new mountain home with some new friends, some who end up acting rather strangely.
Both storylines are quite complex. We progress through Rainy’s past scenes with little drops of information coming through at a time to build a picture of how future Rainy has come to be.
This definitely didn’t turn out like I thought and indeed I had no idea how the ending was going to come about! If you enjoy A. R. Torre’s thrillers I’d definitely recommend you check out Tarryn’s. We are also a fan of Tarryn’s romance novels so check those out too!



