The Last Time I Lied
Riley Sager (Penguin Random House)
There’s an old saying: Never go back. Perhaps Emma Davis, a rich and successful artist in the Big Apple, should have paid attention, when she was asked to run a summer school in art and design at Camp Nightingale in the wilderness of New York State. Why? Because fifteen years ago she was a camper at the same vacation spot and terrible things happened. Three of her companions went missing, never to be seen again. Were they kidnapped? Murdered? Or did they just wander into the wilderness, get lost, and starve to death?
When she arrives at what is known as Camp Rich Bitch, all the bad memories come back, and just as she fears, the camp seems to be haunted by those old friends and new enemies in a place full of secrets, and the lies of the title.
Sager ties all the pieces together, then and now, and weaves an enthralling thriller full of twists and turns, until the final chapters reveal what really happened fifteen years previously. Good stuff.
Price: £12.99. Info: www.penguinrandomhouse.com
words Mark Timlin