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The Good Liar

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241973295

  • Length: 368  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 255g

  • RRP: £8.99

The Good Liar

NOW A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER

This is a life told back to front.

This is a man who has lied all his life.

Roy is a conman living in a small English town, about to pull off his final con. He is going to meet and woo a beautiful woman. He will swiftly move in with her and together they will live the seemingly calm life of a retired couple - evenings in front of the television, a little holiday in Berlin. Then he will slip away with her life savings.

But who is the man behind the con and what has he had to do to survive this life of lies?

And why is this beautiful woman so willing to be his next victim?

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241973295

  • Length: 368  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 255g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • An assured thriller debut in the footsteps of le Carré, Highsmith and Rendell...The Good Liar makes you want to experience Nicholas Searle's next trick

    Guardian

  • This is set to be one of the books of the year that will get everyone talking....If you go in with absolutely no preconceptions, you will have your socks knocked, nay, blown off

    Stylist

  • A part-thriller, part-human condition novel that packs a tremendous punch

    Financial Times

  • The Good Liar is a taut, compulsive thriller with a dark, intriguing heart. A Mr Ripley for our time

    Jonathan Freedland

  • All the ingredients are in this book...You're in safe hands with Searle's elegant writing

    The Times

  • An incredibly dark, taut thriller...it deserves to be a bestseller. Think of Ruth Rendell morphing into John le Carré

    Daily Express

  • Searle shows a gift for complex plotting. The Good Liar is packed with secrets and surprises, bluffs and double-bluffs

    Daily Telegraph

  • A perfectly entertaining way to spend a few hours

    Sunday Times

  • A confident debut...an easy page-turner

    Grazia

  • A cracking read

    Graham Norton, BBC Radio 2

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About the Author

Nicholas Searle

Nicholas Searle is the author of three novels. His first novel, The Good Liar, was a Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger for the best debut crime novel. Before becoming a writer, Nicholas worked in British intelligence for more than twenty-five years. He lives in Yorkshire.

Nicholas Searle

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