Count My Lies

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Author: Sophie StavaCrime & mystery | Thriller / suspensePublished on 22nd May 2025 by Cornerstone (Century) in the United Kingdom.Hardback | 336 pages 163mm x 241mm x 35mm | 542g I'm your friend. But can you trust me? A voice-driven, read-in-one-night suspense thriller narrated by a compulsive liar, perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Lucy Foley, and Laura Dave.* A Good Morning America March book club pick ** Soon to be a HULU television series starring Lindsay Lohan *'Utterly intriguing, the pages turned themselves' LIZ NUGENT‘This smart, original, twisty story had me gripped from the first to the last page. I just had to keep reading!’ LIANE MORIARTY‘The author nails it from the first sentence … With its punchy, chatty writing style nothing will stop this from becoming a runaway bestseller’ Daily MailSloane Caraway is a liar.They are harmless lies, she tells herself, to make her own life a bit more interesting.So when she sees a child in tears in a playground one afternoon, she tells the girl’s (very attractive) dad she’s a nurse and helps him pull a bee sting from his daughter’s foot.With this lie and chance encounter, Sloane becomes the nanny for Jay and Violet Lockhart who have everything: a beautiful brownstone house, a daughter in private nursery school, and long summers on an idyllic island just off the coast of New York.Sloane wants to be just like them. She wants their life and she’s prepared to lie about almosteverything to get it.But Sloane isn’t the only one lying, and soon she begins to realise that all that’s picture-perfect about her employers hides a much more dangerous truth . . .More praise for Count My Lies:‘Utterly gripping and unputdownable' AMY TINTERA‘Readers will find themselves racing through the final, jaw-dropping pages, desperate to gather every last clue of this astonishing web of lies’ KATY HAYS‘Get ready for a rollercoaster of twists’ LIV CONSTANTINE'Sophie Stava masterfully weaves suspense, deception, and heart into a brilliant, twisty thriller that keeps you guessing until the very last page' TRISHA SAKHLECHAReaders are loving Count My Lies:'So addictive' 5-star reader review'Jaw dropping' 5-star reader review'Thrilling' 5-star reader review'I couldn't put it down' 5-star reader review'Twisty, and absorbing novel' 5-star reader review'Just when you think the big twist has happened, there’s another, and another, and another!' 5-star reader review Show more