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All of Them Lied

The most compulsive reading experience I’ve had this year. Eminently readable, very intriguing and highly entertaining. I loved it.

Gill Perdue is a great writer on a sentence level, on creating excellent characters and pulling off taut, gripping plots. I had SUCH a gorgeous time reading this

A thrilling and richly compelling page-turner with real emotional depth. Gill Perdue is a wonderful writer

Nothing is what it seems in this book. Tightly twisted and incredibly tense. Loved it

WOW! I loved it. So tense, so pacy! Gill is an exceptional writer

A haunting, suspenseful and immersive read. Brilliant

A dark, multi-layered tale, skilfully laying a trail of tantalising clues, keeping the reader engrossed right to the final page

A gripping, atmospheric thriller that packs a real emotional punch. Gill Perdue is rapidly becoming one of the strongest voices in Irish crime fiction. Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Jo Spain and Tana French

I absolutely devoured it. The epitome of a page-turner from the very first word. It's expertly paced, keeping you guessing throughout

Immersive and addictive with a tantalising drip-feed of detail that leaves readers desperate for more, All Of Them Lied firmly cements Gill Perdue’s place as one of Ireland’s top writers

Confirms that Gill Perdue is one of the very best in Irish crime fiction. With an unerring eye for family relations and romantic entanglements, she skilfully creates a world where a dream life becomes a nightmare. Cleverly plotted and unrelentingly tense, this brilliant thriller uses amnesia and physical frailty to ratchet up the reader's paranoia. I raced through it!

What a fabulous book – dark, twisty, claustrophobic and thrilling. I was living on my last nerve!

A skilled and sensitive exploration of the gothic claustrophobia that illness and dependency can bring. The elevated and psychologically astute writing kept me reading long into the night

A gripping read, weaving plot and timeline line expertly, drip feeding just enough to make us think we know what’s going on even when we don’t. In Thea, Gill Perdue delivers a complex, sympathetic central character, who we can't help cheering on! She is a brilliant architect of psychological crime fiction

If Maeve Binchy characters existed in 2026 and woke up in a crime thriller, it would be this book! All of Them Lied has brilliantly drawn characters, tension, and heart racing revelations

Will keep readers guessing right to the very end. Perdue is a gifted storyteller, creating characters who leap off the page, vivid and fully formed. This was a hugely enjoyable read from a writer who knows exactly how to keep the pages turning

There is nothing quite like an amnesia thriller to layer on the suspense from the first page and in All of Them Lied Gill Perdue certainly cranks up the tension. You won’t want to put down this engrossing psychological thriller

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Thea wakes from a coma, having forgotten much of the recent past. As well as learning to walk again, she studies the list of ‘facts’ she keeps on her phone, hoping something will unlock her memory. Her top three facts are: 
 
I was in Italy 
 
I was with the people I love the most 
 
I fell down a ravine and I’m lucky to be alive 
 
But as Thea gets hazy glimpses of the lead-up to her fall, the facts stop adding up. Trapped at home in the middle of the Irish countryside, dependent on those who were on holiday with her – her fiancé, her brother, her sister-in-law and her best friend – terrifying questions surface: 
 
Was I pushed? 
 
Why are they lying? 
 
Who can I trust? 
 
As memories come tumbling back, Thea realises she is in race against time to figure things out – and that her life hangs in the balance.

'The most compulsive reading experience I’ve had this year.' Liz Nugent 
 
‘Immersive and addictive with a tantalising drip-feed of detail that leaves readers desperate for more, All Of Them Lied firmly cements Gill Perdue’s place as one of Ireland’s top writers’ Andrea Mara 
 
‘Gill Perdue is a great writer on a sentence level, on creating excellent characters and pulling off taut, gripping plots. I had SUCH a gorgeous time reading this’ Marian Keyes 
 
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Thea wakes from a coma, having forgotten much of the recent past. As well as learning to walk again, she studies the list of ‘facts’ she keeps on her phone, hoping something will unlock her memory. Her top three facts are: 
 
I was in Italy 
 
I was with the people I love the most 
 
I fell down a ravine and I’m lucky to be alive 
 
But as Thea gets hazy glimpses of the lead-up to her fall, the facts stop adding up. Trapped at home in the middle of the Irish countryside, dependent on those who were on holiday with her – her fiancé, her brother, her sister-in-law and her best friend – terrifying questions surface: 
 
Was I pushed? 
 
Why are they lying? 
 
Who can I trust? 
 
As memories come tumbling back, Thea realises she is in race against time to figure things out – and that her life hangs in the balance. 
 
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'Gill Perdue is one of the very best in Irish crime fiction, she skilfully creates a world where a dream life becomes a nightmare. Cleverly plotted and unrelentingly tense, this brilliant thriller uses amnesia and physical frailty to ratchet up the reader's paranoia. I raced through it!' Jane Casey 
 
‘The suspense was electric. Riveting’ Patricia Gibney 
 
‘A thrilling and richly compelling page-turner with real emotional depth. Gill Perdue is a wonderful writer’ Catherine Kirwan 
 
‘Nothing is what it seems in this book. Tightly twisted and incredibly tense. Loved it!’ Kitty Murphy 
 
‘WOW! I loved it. So tense, so pacy! Gill is an exceptional writer’ Michelle Teahan 
 
‘A haunting, suspenseful and immersive read. Brilliant!’ Zoe Miller 
 
‘A dark, multi-layered tale, skilfully laying a trail of tantalising clues, keeping the reader engrossed right to the final page’ Siobhan MacDonald 
 
‘Utterly compelling’ Jake Arnott 
 
‘What a fabulous book – dark, twisty, claustrophobic and thrilling. I was living on my last nerve!’ Anna McPartlin 
 
‘A skilled and sensitive exploration of the gothic claustrophobia that illness and dependency can bring. Kept me reading long into the night’ Chris Bridges 
 
‘A gripping, atmospheric thriller that packs a real emotional punch. Gill Perdue is rapidly becoming one of the strongest voices in Irish crime fiction. Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Jo Spain and Tana French’ Sheila Bugler 
 
‘Genius! Unputdownable and addictive’ Jen Bray 
 
‘I absolutely devoured it. The epitome of a page-turner from the very first word. It's expertly paced, keeping you guessing throughout’ Casey King 
 
‘A gripping read, weaving plot and timeline line expertly, drip feeding just enough to make us think we know what’s going on even when we don’t.' Fiona Gartland 
 
'If Maeve Binchy characters existed in 2026 and woke up in a crime thriller, it would be this book! Brilliantly drawn characters, tension, and heart racing revelations' Sharon Dempsey 
 
‘Will keep readers guessing right to the very end. This was a hugely enjoyable read from a writer who knows exactly how to keep the pages turning’ Rosemary Hennigan 
 
‘There is nothing quite like an amnesia thriller to layer on the suspense from the first page and All of Them Lied certainly cranks up the tension. You won’t want to put down this engrossing psychological thriller’ Olivia Kiernan

Gill Perdue is a writer and dance teacher. She worked as a primary school teacher for fifteen years and published four children's books. If I Tell, her first adult novel, was an Irish bestseller and shortlisted for Crime Novel of the Year at the 2022 Irish Book Awards. All of Them Lied is her fourth novel. Gill lives in Dublin.

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The most compulsive reading experience I’ve had this year. Eminently readable, very intriguing and highly entertaining. I loved it.

Gill Perdue is a great writer on a sentence level, on creating excellent characters and pulling off taut, gripping plots. I had SUCH a gorgeous time reading this

The suspense was electric. Riveting

A thrilling and richly compelling page-turner with real emotional depth. Gill Perdue is a wonderful writer

Nothing is what it seems in this book. Tightly twisted and incredibly tense. Loved it

WOW! I loved it. So tense, so pacy! Gill is an exceptional writer

A haunting, suspenseful and immersive read. Brilliant

A dark, multi-layered tale, skilfully laying a trail of tantalising clues, keeping the reader engrossed right to the final page

Utterly compelling

A gripping, atmospheric thriller that packs a real emotional punch. Gill Perdue is rapidly becoming one of the strongest voices in Irish crime fiction. Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Jo Spain and Tana French

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