Someone Is Lying by Jenny Blackhurst

Author : Jenny Blackhurst
Title : Someone Is Lying
Published : 2019
Publisher : Headline
Pages : 336
Genre : Thriller

     One year after Erica Spencer falls from a treehouse at a lavish Halloween party, the residents of the exclusive gated community where she lived have comes to terms with her death and moved on with their lives. Until one day, a post on the school's website announces there will be a podcast to expose what really happened on the night of the accident. Six suspects are named, with the podcaster promising to reveal the murderer by the end of the series. Everyone in this community has secrets to keep, and one of them is already a killer...

     Jenny Blackhurst is one of those authors that I have come to trust. Every time I pick up one of her books I know that it will keep me glued to the pages from start to finish. So when I came to Someone Is Lying I figured it would be a safe bet. 

     Blackhurst has once again delivered a cracking book. This time we are swept up into the world of a gated community. With each of the characters appearing to have something to hide from all of the others, it is only a matter of time before this house of cards comes tumbling down. For me, the author always creates such interesting characters. Each and every time I find myself wrapped up in their worlds. She also has this knack of making me believe characters are going one way and then flipping back on it. More than once with this book I was completely certain of a character's guilt in one thing or another only to have them reveal it to be something else altogether. 

     It is I find one of the great things about this author that she has found a way to perfect the art of playing with secrets. How they eat way at some people and for others it is like spinning a pen with there fingers.  It is within this mix that she finds her stride each and every time for me. Never letting me down as she uses the element to build inherent tension between families, friends, and neighbors. 

     I think if you were to transplant this story to any other location it would have started to fall apart. But within the gates of this closed community, it stops them from being able to escape each other. They are forced to confront each other on a daily bases never being able to outrun the lies they have told. It's interesting to see how they double down on the stories they tell in a desperate hope of pushing suspension on to anyone but themselves. I suppose this is all human nature when we do something wrong we rarely want to take whatever punishment will follow. 

     Her style always makes her book a pleasure to read and this one is no different. I was never left feeling like I was stagnating as the plot moves quickly and effortlessly along. I was constantly trying to figure out just who was guilt here and must confess that I never did quite get there before the author's grand reveal. But this is part of the reason I will always grab her books without hesitation. Sometimes I think I have read so many of these types of books that I will always be ahead of the author. 

     So in conclusion once again Blackhurst gave me an amazing book to sink my teeth into. With so many lies and secrets flying about would the truth not have saved a few lives but I suppose life is never so easy. And whichever path you choose to take someone will always get hurt. So with characters that twist in there own skins trying to save themselves. And a plot that captivated me from start to finish what more could you ask for.