Was here about two days ago to rave about Kelley Armstrong’s “Missing” and here I am again. To rave partially about another series. “Nine Liars” caught my eye via the title. A brilliant work by Maureen Johnson. Loved her Shades of London series. “Nine Liars” is technically a stand alone continuation of here Truly Devious series and the part of the summary that caught my eye especially was:
“…Relief comes when David invites Stevie and her friends to join him for study abroad, and his new friend Izzy introduces her to a double-murder cold case. In 1995, nine friends from Cambridge University went to a country house and played a drunken game of hide-and-seek. Two were found in the woodshed the next day, murdered with an ax.
The case was assumed to be a burglary gone wrong, but one of the remaining seven saw something she can’t explain. This was no break-in. Someone’s lying about what happened in the woodshed.
Seven suspects. Two murders. One killer still playing a deadly game.”
Y’all. I was disappointed initially. “Nine Liars” sounded DOPE and I wanted to speed to it. But ended up grabbing all the books. I finished the Truly Devious trilogy (the first three books are technically the only ones with a connected case) in one day. I was up until 7 A.M. and got my niece to just vibe next to me so I could finish the last book in the early hours of dawn. I really could not put them down. I finished one, sat with it, going over clues and suspects to try and solve this case by myself but feeling like I didn’t have enough to really figure out who did what. Then I would reach for the next one.
Its been a long time since I read anything for fun. I’ve been working on a Bachelor’s Degree for the last two years so haven’t had a lot of reading time. My own creative works have somewhat ground to a halt. But reading has sort of renewed the passion. I find myself having to pause to jot down ideas and thinking about mysterious in my own pieces. I didn’t understand so many of my professors being so insistent that writers read to fuel themselves.
I’m at the halfway mark of “Nine Liars” now and I am desperate for the answers but even more desperate for what I’m going to read next.
by Thatonemilattobitch