The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle

About the Book

★★★★✩

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 and slip away with her life savings. But who is the man behind the con? 

What has he had to do to survive a life of lies?

And who has had to pay the price?
 

Nicholas Searle’s debut novel, The Good Liar, quite an interesting and well-constructed read. He builds a fascinating cast of characters, as Roy attempts his final con on Betty and discovers it may not go as well as initially anticipated, and I couldn’t put this book down as I followed along with them. Searle winds his narrative through twists and turns with intriguing flashbacks into Roy’s past, showing the past that brought him to the current moment. Overall, I can easily say that The Good Liar is a thrilling read and will not leave interested readers disappointed.

 

Thanks to TLC Book Tours, I received a copy of The Good Liar and the opportunity to provide an honest review. I was not required to write a positive review, and all the opinions I have expressed are my own. To read other opinions of the novel, click here.

 

About the Author

Nicholas Searle grew up in the southwest of England and studied languages at the University of Bath and the University of Göttingen, Germany. He spent more years than he cares to remember in public service, in the UK  and New Zealand, before deciding in  2011 to leave and begin writing fiction.  The Good Liar is his first novel. Nicholas lives in Yorkshire, in the north of England.

 

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