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The Liar's Girl

Written by: Catherine Ryan Howard
Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins, Alan Smyth, Gary Furlong
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Will Hurley was an attractive, charming, and impressive student at Dublin's elite St. John's College - and Ireland's most prolific serial killer. Having stalked his five young victims, he drowned them in the muddy waters of the Grand Canal. Sentenced to life imprisonment when he was just 19, Will is locked away in the city's Central Psychiatric Hospital.

Freshman Alison Smith moved to the Big Smoke to enroll in St. John's and soon fell hard for Will Hurley. Her world bloomed...and then imploded when Liz, her best friend, became the latest victim of the Canal Killer - and the Canal Killer turned out to be the boy who'd been sleeping in her bed. Alison fled to the Netherlands and, in 10 years, has never once looked back.

When a young woman's body is found in the Grand Canal, Garda detectives visit Will to see if he can assist them in solving what looks like a copycat killing. Instead, Will tells them he has something new to confess - but there's only one person he's prepared to confess it to.The last thing Alison wants is to be pulled back into the past she's worked so hard to leave behind. Reluctantly, she returns to the city she hasn't set foot in for more than a decade to face the man who murdered the woman she was supposed to become.

Only to discover that, until now, Will has left out the worst part of all.

©2018 Catherine Ryan Howard (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime Scary Murder
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Interesting story, with a lovely setting. Lyrically written and beautifully spoken.

Really enjoy listening to this book.

Excellent story

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Loved this book! Title says it all. I need 8 more words. One two three.

Loved everything about this book!

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This was a good read and I didn’t predict the ending at all. I love when books can trick me like that. Least favorite character is Alison’s mom who is basically the reason it’s a 4 star and not a 5 star. Maybe it’s not realistic for every character to be likeable but she always just spoke to Alison in a judgy shrill tone kind of way, over and over and over (even if she’d start to talk calmly she’d go right back to the same as before) and Alison had to beg her to cooperate and just talk to her and answer questions every single time they talked, or every little question sent her mom into a worrisome whirlwind she’d never come out of. Her conversations never lead to any story progression and I’d just be annoyed at everything she said. Besides her, it was a great read! Also some people are really just like that in real life, so it’s believable for sure. It’s just simultaneously boring and frustrating to read the same conversation multiple times. You want to just shout at her to cooperate and focus! Alison was likeable though, as well as the other characters, even the “bad” ones. Well written overall.

Great read

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The narrators were great and the storyline was very captivating. Kept my interest all the way through.

Enjoyed very much!

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At first I thought this is too slow a burn, but soon enough I was sucked into the story in such a way that I could not 'put it down'. I did guess at what happened in the end, but I did not guess as to the 'why'. And that 'why' is what blew me away. Story telling at its best. Alana's sing-song narration started to grate after a while, it could have been better.

Enjoyed this very much.

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