Oh wow, this book is excellent. It is clever, well-written, intricately plotted with characters that leap off the page and a compelling and clever narrative. I read Riley Sager’s first novel, The Final Girls last year (you can read my review here if you wish) and loved it so was over the moon to see he had a new book on the way. The Final Girls was about the lone survivors of serial killers and Riley Sager uses this concept and builds on it to great effect in Last Time I Lied. He has created a story about a woman, Emma, who as a young teen visited Camp Nightingale only to wake one morning and discover that the three girls she shared a cabin with had vanished into thin air. She is now an adult, a successful painter and is invited back to Camp Nightingale to be an artist in residence for the summer. It all sounds great doesn’t it? She can lay her ghosts to rest, draw a line under her past and move on, except, it doesn’t go quite like that.

Riley Sager can really write. I know that sounds a stupid thing to say of an author but his style is so moreish that it makes his novels real page turners. He writes women extremely well, they are people first and foremost and they just happen to be female which is very refreshing. He also writes compelling, broken people extraordinarily well as shown by our protagonist Emma who was forever changed by the events that took place all those years ago at Camp Nightingale causing something inside of her to become irreparably damaged. She is only able to paint the three missing girls; Vivian, Natalie and Alison and obliterates them from view by painting the forest that surrounds Camp Nightingale over their forms. She along with the ringleader of their group Vivian and Camp Nightingale owner, Franny are the trinity around which the book rotates. They are each damaged and broken, each have their demons and they are wholly absorbing characters who I loved and adored.

These women lead the way through a plot that is as clever as it is compelling. Told via a dual timeline of then and now, we are kept in the dark but tantalising clues are dropped at our feet like breadcrumbs. What happened to the girls? What does Emma know really? These are questions that we ask ourselves throughout the novel as Riley Sager expertly weaves his tale. At one point a character says that all the clues are there, you just have to look and this is so true because at the denouement I was sat hand clasped to forehead exclaiming, ‘OF COURSE!’. It made sense. All of it. There aren’t any loose threads or ridiculous twists in this book just tight prose and clever structure.

If we’re going to talk about the strong characters in this novel then we really need to discuss Camp Nightingale which is a character in itself. At times it seems a haven, at others a hell but overall there is an almost insidious aura of fear and control at this remote camp. There is a vast lake, acres of woodland, wooden cabins and a large lodge positioned at the centre which only family members can enter. It has mysterious beginnings and rumours that the man made lake obliterated a Native American village whilst they slept builds suspense and a world of secrets and mistruths. It is this world that Riley Sager has so carefully created which allows us to feel the tension and fear of the characters and I could feel the heat from the sun and hear the lake lapping at the shore.

When I grow up I want to write like Riley Sager, he just makes it look so easy. This is a wholly readable book which I read in a day on a sun lounger in the garden. It is a thriller yes, but there are themes within its pages that touch on things like female friendship (particularly teenage female friendship, the most terrifying of all the friendships), which was so well-written that it was almost terrifying. He has perfectly encapsulated the power play, the alpha-female, the control that can be wielded through carefully placed words, affection and confidences and how devastating exclusion can be. Excellent.

I loved The Final Girls but I think I love Last Time I Lied more. It has everything that I love in a book and I really can’t wait to read more from Riley Sager.

I really loved Final Girls, so was looking for ward to reading Riley’s next book and it did not disappoint.

The camp setting added to the tense nature of the story, especially being surrounded by a forest and a lake. It is described brilliantly so it’s easy to imagine in your mind what it’s like.

Emma is a fascinating character, and I enjoyed the flashback chapters which slowly revealed what happened when Emma was at the camp as a teenager. The other characters all act suspiciously throughout so it is difficult to work out who is telling the truth and who is hiding something. Although I guessed some of what happened, there are so many twists and turns all through the book. There is also plenty I would never have guessed!

Another brilliant, tense, twisty book from Riley Sager, and I look forward to the next!

The Last Time I lied is a mystery story at a summer camp with 'Mean Girls'.

One summer, fifteen years ago, three girls went missing from Camp Nightingale, or 'Camp Rich Bitch' as it is referred to by some, mostly those who can't afford to go there. Despite extensive searches the lost girls have never been found. Emma shared a cabin with the girls who disappeared and she blames herself, at least in part, for the tragedy. The camp has been closed since the girls went but now the owner thinks the time is right for a revival. Now a talented artist, Emma is approached by the owner of Camp Nightingale who has a proposition for her. Emma has awful memories of her time at Camp Nightingale but after much consideration she agrees to return to camp to tutor the new group of girls in art and painting. She hopes this may also be an opportunity for her to find out what happened to the missing girls all those years ago.

I enjoyed this book but I found it to be very young adulty, much more so than the author's earlier book, Final Girls (which I loved). I didn't find the story to be quite as strong or engaging either, but the characters are good and the ending is an absolute killer, which ultimately saved the book for me. Enjoyable summer reading, especially for fans of Nancy Drew and the like.

I was expecting something so much better with this book after the hype surrounding it, but unfortunately all I got from this book was ridiculous scenarios and annoying characters.
It's rather a slow burner, with chapters written in present day and fifteen years previous, all from the POV of the same protagonist. A protagonist who I found to be so monumentally stupid that I was rooting for a violent end to her.
The premise is decent but there are so many things wrong with the general set up. For one, why reopen a camp where three girls disappeared and not update anything of the camp and up security? Morons.
Throughout the book, the reader is left breadcrumbs about a possible tragic history to the camp <spoiler> and then left disappointed when it turns out to be absolutely nothing at all </spoiler>, along with the most basic clues about past and current events, but these clues are so vague that they just leave you pissed off.
So, decent premise but was not acheived by too vague clues and a stupid non-twist.

So many emotions run through with this book, it is an enthralling novel with a big guessing game running underneath and, on this occasion, I can clearly say that I didn't see it coming! Worth every moment!

Brilliant!
This is the first book I’ve read of Riley Sager’s and I loved it.
Emma is an artist and we find out that the paintings she’s done for an exhibition all have a common theme - in each painting is hidden three teenage girls.
Only Emma knows why and has shared this secret with one close friend, Marc.
We find out that 15 years ago while she was at summer camp, three girls went missing one night from the cabin where Emma was staying.
They’ve never been found and this haunts Emma through her life.
At the exhibition she meets Franny who runs the summer camp and she invites her back there as a tutor.
Emma decides to go so she can try and work out what happened to the girls.
In a twist of fate she is staying in the same cabin as last time and reminders of the girls are everywhere.
The story is told in the present day and also flashbacks to 15 years ago and we soon realise more than one person has secrets that they are hiding.
This is a great mystery thriller and I raced through it as I just needed to know what would happen next.
Thanks to Penguin Random House and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book.

I want to start this review by saying that I really enjoyed Final Girls [read my review here] BUT that I think Last Time I Lied is even more of an intoxicating, atmospheric read. Riley Sager creates a suitably eerie setting for his new novel, based in an all-Girls camp called ‘Camp Nightingale’; it delves into the disappearance fifteen years ago of Emma’s room mates, and the present day narrative where she returns to the camp full of questions about what happened those years ago.

The way that the story switches between the two narratives really creates a sense of mystery and left me really wanting to find out what happened, and if anyone was to blame. Mystery engulfs the present-day narrative too, and I had a whole host of different theories worked out in my mind as the novel went on - although I sort of guessed one (very small) part right, I definitely didn’t have it all worked out correctly. Ultimately I was left feeling nicely satisfied by the ending (theres a small thing I might have wanted to turn out differently, but nothing that in any way ruins my enjoyment of the book). 

It’s definitely dramatic at parts and there are some characters that make more of an impact than others. I loved main character Emma but she wants without her own faults, with I felt was more realistic than if she was the perfect protagonist. Sometimes I wanted to shout at both the teenage and adult versions of her, but intimately I did care what happened to her and that meant I was much more invested in the story than I otherwise would have been.

Sager’s writing is brilliant. Here he’s crafted a compelling and multi layered mystery that does exactly what I feel a novel in this genre should: thrill and intrigue, from first page to last. I'd definitely recommend this as a gripping summer read!

The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager.

‘Two Truths and a Lie’ – Ready to play?

Only recently I started to become a constant reader! I know right like what else have I done with my life.
Whilst in the library last year browsing the shelves as you do, I noticed this bright pink hardcover I instantly picked it up and the title was Final Girls – Oh my I am so glad I picked that up! I had never heard of Riley Sager before this, but after reading and absolutely falling in love with Final Girls, I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw his new book The Last Time I Lied available to request on Netgalley I tried my luck and I got accepted (get in!)
So in I went and I couldn’t get enough of this book even if I tried to.

The Last Time I Lied follows a story of Emma a previous camper at Camp Nightingale and now a budding artist with a huge career in front of her.
13 year old Emma is sent to Camp Nightingale by her parents and is resident in log cabin “Dogwood” with three older girls, Vivian, Natalie and Allison.
One dark night Emma stirs from her sleep to see the three older girls sneaking out of Dogwood, the three are never seen again.

Fast forward to fifteen years later, Emma is concentrating on her art career, but she can’t stop painting pictures of the missing three girls.
She is haunted by flashbacks and memories of that dreadful night when her world got turned upside down.
Emma is offered an art gallery showing and Camp Nightingales owner ‘Francesca Harris-White’ turns up and offers Emma a chance to return to Camp Nightingale as a camp leader in the arts sector. Emma accepts her offer to return to Camp Nightingale in hopes this will put some closure on what happened fifteen years earlier.

Upon arriving to Camp Nightingale things don’t go as smooth as Emma had hoped, Emma is put back into cabin Dogwood and shares with three new girls.
Whilst working at Camp Nightingale Emma decides to search for the truth on what happened 15 years ago, will finding the truth set Emma’s mind free of the torture of the unknown? Or will this add more torture and make things worse?

There are a lot of characters in this book and my god all of them have secrets hiding, I loved this not knowing what was the truth or a lie, it keeps you guessing over and over again.
Working within a woodland every detail about the woods at Camp Nightingale made these chapters the worse, I could smell the earth and hear the woodland talking, was super spooky!
Even though there are multiple characters in the book I never found it confusing or hard to keep track of, you really invest in the characters.

Upon starting the book it does take a while for all the action to start, whereas in Final Girls you are catapulted straight into the drama and unfolding.

I can’t thank Netgalley enough for sending me a advanced copy of this.
I loved it loved it loved it.

& Thank you to you the reader, reading through this slog of a review

I really loved how original and suspenseful Riley Sager's first novel, Final Girls, was. It was in my top 10 of 2016 for good reason. Well the impossible is possible, he's done it again! Riley Sager wrote a brilliant follow up novel that holds one's own phenominally. If you liked Final Girls, you will like this one too, and that's no lie!

When girls are disappearing without a trace, you can color me intrigued! Last Time I Lied was eerie, sinister and very very atmospheric thanks to the setting of Camp Nightingale. The summer camp mentioned in the novel is buried in the woods (think no cell phone reception!) with wooden cabins planted here and there and each cabin houses 3-4 summer guests. Lake Midnight, situated on the domain, was so ominous and dark, it felt like a character all on its own and I loved its own interesting and legendary past.

One night, Vivian, Natalie and Allison disappear without a trace, leaving 13 year-old Emma behind in the cabin. They disappear into the night, never to be seen again and it's funny yet a genius idea to resurrect the feel of his first novel by making Emma a Final Girl or sole surivor in his sequel. Now - 15 years later - camp Nightingale is reopened. Some come back to forget what happened in the past and replace it with more pleasant memories but Emma comes back to remember, find out what happened and get rid of some of her guilt. Guilt for what exactly is something that'll certainly eat at you as well when you're following in Emma's wake. I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt, she's easy to sympathise with when they look at her like she's a pariah, but I had to hold back a little bit and couldn't give her my all because she didn't show all the cards in her hand either.

Sager then expertly weaves two time periods with unmistakable similarities together. Before she knows it Emma is bunking with 3 young girls, Miranda, Krystal and Sasha and history seems to be repeating. Just like Vivian in the past, Miranda is also a leader type and the other two seem to parallel the girls from the past as well. There are 6 girls to keep track of apart from Emma but I didn't have any problem following sporty spice and the others. It was pretty obvious as well who was really important and who wasn't.

The author managed to keep the mystery going for a very long time without letting my attention wane for even a second. Last Time I Lied is a spooky story with suspects and red herrings aplenty. I was led astray numerous times and just when I thought I could reach my own conclusion, he had me tick off another name from my suspect list without a pardon. This happened multiple times and with every new suspect exonerated, I actually worried who would be the last one standing. I thought I knew better all the time and I actually knew nothing at all :-). I shouldn't have been so surprised that I was completely unprepared for the way it ended. I was hit so hard when I found out what happened to the girls. The denouement came with a pretty big bang and I hung onto every word!

Riley Sager definitely knows what he's doing and how it's done right. He knows how to write a novel that'll keep you on the edge of your seat!

I liked how the story was written but I loved the setting and the atmosphere. Last Time I Lied wasn't too scary but I still consider it as bordering the horror genre. It's so easy to imagine yourself at that summer camp yourself. If you enjoyed reading Six Stories, you should definitely add this one to your readlist.

Emma Davis was 13 when 3 older girls went missing from Camp Nightingale. Emma shared a cabin with them and she knows things that no-one else does about what happened. Fifteen years later she returns to teach painting classes and discovers that she may not be the only one lying about what happened that night.

An absolutely brilliant read, I couldn't put it down. The story is mainly set in the present but there are flashbacks to the time the girls went missing. Great main character, lots of twists and turns, deception and lies, and an excellent conclusion make this one of my top reads of 2018 so far.

Thanks to NetGalley and publishers, Penguin Random House UK, Ebury Publishing, for the opportunity to review an ARC.

Two truths and a lie. A fifteen year old mystery, a summer camp that holds a long buried secret, and a young girl who might just hold the key to unravel it all.

Fifteen years ago three teenage girls vanished overnight from Camp Nightingale and they have never been found. Emma, who was 13 at the time and shared a cabin with them has still not recovered from the trauma. Now a famous painter, she keeps painting the girls over and over and again. When the camp reopens and she’s invited to teach young girls about art, she think this might just be the closure she’s looking for.

Armed with a copy of Nancy Drew, she sets out to find out just what went down all those years ago. A futile attempt, or does she know more than she lets on? Well…

Franny, the owner of Camp Nightingale, and her family welcomes Emma like an old friend. Considering all the trouble she caused them the last time she stayed there, it’s suspicious as fuck. I mean, you literally can’t trust anyone. Not even Emma. Emma doesn’t even trust herself. Now if that doesn’t put you on the edge of your seat then I don’t know what will.

Ova and I had all sorts of theories flying around. Just what exactly is Emma refusing to say? Why is everyone so bloody nice? Are we talking about deadly secrets, or some dramatic teenage thing? You never know with these people…

As we got to know more about the past from flashbacks, the picture seemed clearer but then Riley Sager threw in yet another plot twist and I was floored again. What the shit? Add a sprinkle of mental illness into the mix, and suddenly nothing is what they seem.

If it hadn’t been for the last few chapters, this could have been one of the best thrillers I read this year. But then that ending happened, and it left be baffled. A great suspense turned into some frantic and overly dramatic scramble, and the conclusion left me skeptical and dissatisfied. We really didn’t need that epilogue… no, seriously.

This book was so close to be a 4 star read, if the ending wasn't overly dramatic.

Years ago, Emma went to a summer camp and stayed in the same tent with 3 older girls: Vivian, Alison and Natalie. Those girls were queen Bee's of the camp but they vanished one day. Yes, they literally were lost without a trace. There were many scary stories around the camp and 'Lake Midnight' which is near the campsite, however no one really find out what has happened.

15 years later, Emma gets an invitation to the re-opening of the camp. The camp's owner, Franny, her adopted son's Chet and Theo, Chet's fiance Mindy, another girl from the past- camp time , Becca, and Franny's right arm Lottie is all going to be there.

Until 85% the story goes s fast as an arrow, without letting you go,and it's so gripping and good fun. But I am afraid I hated the ending. It was just overly dramatic, and there were some loose ends. I wish the epilogue were not included in the end.
Thanks for this copy, in exchange for an honest review.

Last Time I Lied is every urban legend, every campfire ghost story, every slasher horror flick that ever made you lie awake listening to the bumps in the night and beg someone to accompany you to the toilet.

The plot is utterly compelling and the author led me round by the nose. I fell for every red herring and double feint he dangled. Riley Sager’s knowledge of human psychology is excellent!

The story is told mainly from the first-person viewpoint of Emma, an unreliable narrator. We are flipped back and forth between the present action and flashbacks of the events fifteen years prior. Sometimes this can get confusing, but in this book the author clearly captures a different atmosphere in each: the heady, hormonal drama of the shimmering summer past and the dark paranoia of the now.

Emma is a reserved and defensive character, and yet somehow still likeable and I was on her side even as I side-eyed her. I understood and sympathised with her struggles and wanted her not just successful but vindicated.

All of the characters, including Emma, are suspicious and unpredictable and I didn’t trust a single one of them; adding to the disturbing schizophrenic fear that pervades everything from setting to characters and plot.

Perfect for fans of psychological suspense thrillers, I suggest you allocate yourself a decent chunk of time for this one, because you’ll want to read it in one sitting!




Fifteen years. That’s how long it’s been. It feels like a lifetime ago. It feels like yesterday.
The camp closed early that summer, shutting down after only two weeks and throwing lots of families’ schedules into chaos. It couldn’t be helped. Not after what happened. My parents vacillated between sympathy and annoyance after they picked me up a day later than everyone else. Last to arrive, last to leave. I remember sitting in our Volvo, staring out the back window as the camp receded. Even at thirteen, I knew it would never reopen.

– Riley Sager, Last Time I Lied

Review by Steph Warren of Bookshine and Readbows blog

This book is different from most of my type of reading matter. To begin with I found it rather creepy. I din't warm to the character Emma so don't expect to like her. It is set in two different times in Emma's life, in the exact same place but 15 years apart. You hear snippets throughout from the past as well as a detailed account of the 'present' happenings which take place over a relatively short timescale. I was somewhat niggled by matters which I am sure would not happen in real life, such as rooming a 28 year old with young teens, including later in the hospital (in real life Britain at least this would just not be allowed). However, I realise this was required for the story to work and after all it is a far fetched mystery and a good one at that. I appreciated the good postscript twist at the end, even though there are hints at it throughout. Good ending.

Thank you to Penguin Random House UK, Ebury and NetGalley for the ARC of thisbook in exchange for an honest review.

I was really excited to be approved for this one.. I had thoroughly enjoyed the author's previous book (The Final girls) and I was very excited to read this one. I was not disappointed.

There was an atmosphere of menace throughout the book. I think that the fact that the book mostly takes place at a camp site in a huge forest contributes to this. Knowing that the three girls had previously disappeared without a trace gives the reader some idea of how large the area is.

I loved this book as it kept me guessing. Lately, I find that a lot of the psychological thriller twists have been huge letdowns but this was not the case here. There was actually one section I had to read a few times as the author really had me fooled. This book made me again realise why I love psychological thrillers so much.

I highly recommend this book as well as the author's previous book. Looking forward to more books from Riley Sager.

Plot: At a camp for privileged teens in the Adirondacks, 3 girls go missing and never turn up, leaving behind their campmate, Emma. 15 years later, she’s a success in the art world, painting huge canvasses with the dark, thick forests she lost her friends too. When she’s offered the chance to return to Camp Nightingale as an instructor, despite her fears, she accepts in the hopes that it will help put her mind to rest about the friends she lost there. Are the answers really buried there or is it just in her mind?

My thoughts: So this was really really weird to read – and it sounds even weirder to say – but as soon as I started reading this story, it felt familiar. Basically, I started writing last year, and this was the almost exactly the story I was writing, right down to the very last twist. I thought that surely that wouldn’t happen and thought it was just me being weird….but no, it did! Literally, the setting, the main characters, the plot – of course, there were some variations, otherwise that would be really creepy – but it was SO WEIRD. I told Ben and he insisted that I must have read it before and been influenced by it, but this was an advance copy I received only 3 days before I finished it (because I rushed through it – I loved it!). And to be clear, I’m not in anyway saying this was my story someone else wrote – I’d only written the first 17,000 words or so and had the rest as a plotline on sheets of A4 on my wall. It’s just a really really odd coincidence!
ANYWAY, on with the actual review! Considering that this was pretty much the story I wanted to write, I couldn’t not love it. Even though I’ve never been to an American summer camp, they’re my “thing”, as are the Adirondacks. I’ve been nearby them before but haven’t yet visited – that’s happening later this year – but I adore that setting and feel “homesick” for it if that makes any sort of sense at all?
The plot itself was fantastic – totally intoxicating in the way that the lives of teenage girls are, haunting and suffocating. I love the swapping between two timelines to unravel the mystery – this can sometimes feel jarring, but here it was done smoothly enough that each jump revealed something new but wasn’t confusing. And I adored the characters. Of course, the ending was also brilliant.
The Last Time I Lied is up there with Lake of Dead Languages for me, which is my favourite book ever. Basically, I’ve added another book to my favourites list and can’t wait to read more by the author.

Wie man im Prolog erfährt, verschwanden an einem Morgen vor 15 Jahren im Campinglager Nightingale Emma Davis´ drei Freundinnen Vivian, Allison und Natalie spurlos. In der Gegenwart verarbeitet die nun 28-jährige Emma, nach einem Kunststudium, diesen Verlust immer noch und immer wieder in ihren Gemälden. Allerdings ist das außer ihrem Freund, der ihr Geheimnis kennt, niemandem bewusst, da sie die Figuren der Mädchen jedes Mal unter dicken grünen und blauen Farbschichten, die den Wald und den See symbolisieren, verschwinden lässt. Auf ihrer ersten großen Vernissage trifft sie überraschend auf die damalige Verantwortliche Camp-Leiterin, die schwerreiche Erbin Franny. Sie ist inzwischen eine Mittsiebzigerin und will Emma ein Angebot machen.

Franny will das Camp nun nach 15 Jahren wieder aufmachen. Es war schon immer für die Töchter der Reichen und Bekannten. Jetzt soll es kostenfrei sein und Emma soll den Mädchen das Malen beibringen. Sie ist von dem Angebot perplex, denn nach all den Jahren lässt sie das Verschwinden und die folgenden Ereignisse noch immer nicht los. Aber vielleicht könnte sie ein Aufenthalt weiterbringen, denn sie steckt auch künstlerisch fest. Sie lässt sich auf diese sechs Wochen Aufenthalt ein, denn sie will nach Spuren und Hinweisen suchen. Emma fühlt sich immer noch schuldig, da sie nachts das Fehlen der Freundinnen bemerkte und sich dann aber wieder schlafen gelegt hat.

Halb freiwillig, halb unabsichtlich landet sie in derselben Hütte wie damals, zusammen mit drei jugendlichen Mädchen. Erste verschüttete Erinnerungen werden wach. Emma findet ein geheimnisvolles verstecktes Foto einer Frau und eine Skizze des Camps, beides muss noch von Vivian sein...

Man kommt sehr schnell in die flüssig erzählte Geschichte rein. Sie wechselt immer wieder zwischen der Gegenwart und Rückblicken auf den ersten Aufenthalt vor 15 Jahren. Es gelingt der Autorin eine leicht schaurige Atmosphäre zu schaffen, auch durch die Legenden um den See Lake Midnight und seine Entstehung. Man folgt der Protagonistin Emma gespannt von Lösung zu Lösung und neuem Rätsel zu neuem Rätsel. Das Thema Lüge zieht sich überzeugend durchs ganze Buch. Man rätselt mit und kommt zu manch falscher Verdächtigung, das hat die Autorin gut entwickelt.

Emma und viele der Nebenfiguren sind sehr sympathisch und nachvollziehbar. Emmas Probleme werden sehr begreiflich und eingängig beschrieben. Zur Mitte hat es dem Buch ein wenig an Spannung gefehlt, was das letzte Drittel völlig wett macht. Die Erzählung steigert sich sehr spannend zum Ende hin und birgt einige Überraschungen. Zum Schluss wird alles aufgelöst und man bleibt zufrieden mit diesem tollen Thriller zurück.

4,5 von 5 Punkten

I previously read The Final Girls by the same author and was delighted to be offered Last Time I Lied. 15 years ago three girls disappeared from a summer camp and were never found despite an extensive search. Accusations, guilt and torment affected those who where there at the time. None more so than Emma Davies who shared a cabin with the girls. Now the camp is to reopen and this gives Emma a chance to lay those ghosts to rest and maybe discover the truth. A brilliantly, dark and twisted tale that had me hooked from the start. The underlying eerie atmosphere engulfs the reader, this is no happy holiday camp. As the story switches from one era to another, the truth begins to unfold. I nodded with delight as I thought the answers were how I had perceived them. But no! This wonderully plotted book had more twists and shocks in store and kept me enthralled right to the very satisfying end.

The Last time I lied by Riley Sager is the epitome of edge of your seat reading. Set in a summer camp for rich girls you see Emma return 15 years after three of her camp mates mysteriously disappeared from her room.
Haunted by their deaths and other issues related to this Emma reluctantly returns as a teacher 15 years later.
Lives have been lived but in the shadow of the disappearances and guilt has played havoc with health and well being.
So what if Emma decides to look and attempt to solve the mystery of the girls who haunt her life?
This is the creepiest story of just that. Everyone is a suspect and for a brit who doesn't really get the whole summer camp business, this is a scary prospect.
A great read that speeds up considerably from about 40% in.
Read it if you dare.

The setting for this book took me back to one of my favourite horror film series. In fact I could almost imagine Camp Nightingale as Camp Crystal Lake. Those who love horror films will get the reference, those who don’t need to check it out.

The story within this book is a good one - 3 girls go missing with no trace and 1 girl remains. With chapters alternating between the past and the present, I was constantly trying to figure out what had happened. The author managed to keep me guessing all the way through.

As with his first book, this one is written well and keeps you guessing throughout. The characters are written well, the story flows well also.

Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing a copy.