This is Why We Lied

One toxic family. Eight suspicious guests. Everyone is guilty. But who is a killer?

'Adroit scene-setting, vivid characterisation and (crucially) impeccable plotting' Financial Times

'A dark, mysterious and compelling read' Sun

'A clever rural variant on the traditional locked-room mystery' Sunday Times

'An engrossing masterclass in crime writing' Irish Independent

‘Another gripping five-star read from the Queen of Crime’ Woman's Weekly

‘Shocking lies are exposed in this pacy thriller’ Woman's Own

'Spellbinding' MyWeekly

Praise for Karin Slaughter

‘Compulsive reading’ Clare Mackintosh

‘Never less than nail-biting’ The Times

‘Twisty, touching and intense. I find it totally absorbing’ Adele Parks

‘A dark, sophisticated gem of a read’ Janice Hallett

‘Heart-stopping one moment, heart-breaking the next’ Cara Hunter

‘Her heroines are believable, flawed and courageous’ Oyinkan Braithwaite

‘Passion, intensity, and humanity’ Lee Child

‘Absorbing’ Sunday Times

‘I’d follow her anywhere’ Gillian Flynn

‘An effortlessly accomplished thriller’ The Times

‘One of the boldest thriller writers working today’ Tess Gerritsen

‘Her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivalled’ Michael Connelly

‘A writer of extraordinary talents’ Kathy Reichs

‘Fiction doesn't get any better than this’ Jeffery Deaver

‘A great writer at the peak of her powers’ Peter James

‘It’s big, dark, rich, satisfying, and bloody – like a perfectly cooked steak’ Stuart MacBride

‘Slaughter has always been adroit at supplying a steady accretion of menacing detail in her Will Trent/Sara Linton series’ Financial Times (Best summer crime books of 2023)

‘The queen of the explosive thriller’ Good Housekeeping

Karin Slaughter is one of the world’s most popular storytellers. Published in 120 countries with more than 40 million copies sold across the globe, her novels have all been Sunday Times bestsellers. Slaughter lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and is the founder of the Save the Libraries project—a nonprofit organization established to support libraries and library programming. Her standalone novel Pieces of Her is now a Netflix series, and the Grant County and Will Trent series are in development for television.