Everyone Here is Lying: The unputdownable new thriller from the Richard & Judy bestselling author

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I seem to be held captive by how neighbours’ lives intersect, how they witness much of what goes on yet feel the need to keep a distance out of courtesy. Lapena seems to have honed in on my obsession and splits open the Stanhope neighbourhood to reveal that it’s no different than any other suburban neighbourhood - there are secrets on every street. The End of Her is a slippery eel of a novel - just when you think you have it in your grasp, it slithers away on a new current. I consumed it in a day. . . . Unputdownable." I liked this story and found my only quibble was the portrayal of Avery. She was nine and acted as is she was approaching her teenage years. I know kids can be precocious but this child seemed having thoughts and plans that seemed beyond her years. Avery realized Marion was going to kill her and pushed Marion down the basement stairs instead. When the detectives attended the autopsy, it was implied that Avery might have killed Marion after her fall. The Ending: Avery says that Marion saw Nora and William together and was jealous. She thought Marion was going to kill her and decided to surprise her when she came into the basement.

When a child goes missing, everyone—from the family to the neighbors—worries that their carefully kept secrets will be exposed during the investigation. Call me callous, but I love a plot where an adulterer gets hoisted by his own petard. But William isn’t the only one hiding things and one by one, the secrets are disclosed. From the very start, I was hooked by this idyllic yet secretive neighborhood. With each of them hiding plenty from both one another as well as themselves, it was fun to watch the police unravel it all. The downside to this, however, was twofold. First off, the police themselves were irritatingly inept. Not in the way, however, that sells a thriller as there wasn’t a secondary character there to put the pieces together themselves. But to make matters worse, the multiple POVs left literally nothing to the imagination. This meant that with each reveal, attention merely moved on to someone else, letting all the delicious secrets simply drop right then and there.In a quiet neighborhood in Stanhope, NY, neighbors Nora and William are having a secret affair. After Nora abruptly breaks off the affair late one afternoon, William arrives home and finds his nine year old daughter Avery in the kitchen. Why is she home alone early from school? She isn’t allowed to walk by herself. She has ADHD, is a difficult child, and never listens to his rules. In a fit of rage, William strikes Avery to the ground. He immediately regrets his behavior, begs her forgiveness, asks her not to tell her mom, and drives away, embarrassed about his actions. After being dumped by his lover, William Wooler comes home to find Avery, his precocious, difficult 9-year-old daughter, alone in the kitchen when she’s supposed to be at choir practice. A confrontation ensues, and William leaves. Several hours later, it appears that Avery is missing. The police are immediately on the case, interviewing the family and the neighbors for information, but instead of providing clarity, each conversation seems to complicate the investigation. Why does it take William so many hours to admit that he came home and saw his daughter before she went missing? Why does someone leave an anonymous tip saying they saw Avery get into a local teen’s car? Why had Avery’s best friend’s brother supposedly spent time alone with her in a treehouse recently? Each revelation leads to new suspicions, and some people will do anything to conceal their darkest secrets. The suspense here is real; Lapena does a great job of exposing layers of domestic dishonesty and betrayal one conversation at a time. But this also means that none of these characters is particularly sympathetic. The twist is real, and at least somewhat surprising, but at that point, everyone seems to deserve a comeuppance. The truth, in this neighborhood, is bruising—and no one comes through unscathed.

Suddenly Stanhope doesn't feel so safe. And William isn't the only one on his street who's hiding a lie. As witnesses come forward with information that may or may not be true, Avery's neighbors become increasingly unhinged.

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Experience the chilling atmosphere of a seemingly safe neighborhood teetering on the brink of chaos. Kala is a literary thriller at its best—you are at once consumed with the characters, the place, the mystery. Colin Walsh gives us layer upon layer: past and present; characters, now and then; all of it building suspense and intimacy. Wow.”— Amanda Hall, Kepler’s Books, Menlo Park, CA

Want to get the latest book news delivered to your inbox each day? Sign up for our daily Book Pulse newsletter. Big Books of the Week Now here’s a neighborhood thriller done right! I’ve read a handful of mediocre neighborhood thrillers recently so Everyone Here Is Lying was such a refreshing change. As the title suggests, this is one of those neighborhoods where everyone has a secret they don’t want their neighbors or the police to know. I loved listening to these twists unfold. His wife calls him later to report her missing and he doesn't tell the police or his wife that he saw her. He soon becomes a suspect of her disappearance. Things spiral out of control ...lies are revealed...relationships are shattered and Avery is still missing. The ending is twisted and creepy. I absolutely adore Shari Lapena's compulsive thrillers and her new novel is her best yet. More twists than a roller coaster." Shari is a very gifted storyteller, and a most entertaining one. The pace never flags, the twists are fiendishly clever and the writing is as perfect as can be.”

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This is a great example of domestic noir and Shari Lapena is an expert in both pace and the placing of clues and misdirections. Few people in this story are uniformly bad and the punishment suffered by everyone involved is intense.” The best part of the book is its impeccable pacing. The mystery entices you, urging you to make guesses about who committed the crime, who took Avery, the 9-year-old little girl. The story weaves a plotline that combines the intrigue of "We Need to Talk About Kevin" and the tension of "Prisoners." As the title suggests, there are multiple suspects, and everyone seems to be hiding something, making it hard to pinpoint the perpetrator and their motive.