A Thousand Perfect Lies by Monica Murphy is now live!
Secrets don’t die. They just transfer schools.
New York native Billie Vale arrives at Wickham Academy, England’s most elite boarding school, with a forged identity as Belinda Winters and one mission: clear her sister’s name. Isla lies in a coma, accused of killing her best friend. Billie has one shot to uncover the truth in a school built on privilege and deception. Succeed, and her estranged father will finally help her mother. Fail, and it will tear what’s left of her family apart.
But Wickham’s secrets run deep, and not everyone wants them exposed. The school’s golden prince and its brooding outcast both seem to know more than they’ll admit—and both have reasons to keep Billie close. As she digs into the lies that built Wickham’s empire, she discovers that loyalty is just another currency, every hallway hides a motive, and everyone here protects their own at any cost.
But someone at Wickham knows what really happened…
And they’ll bury Billie before they let her find out.
Perfect for readers who loved the dark social hierarchies of Gossip Girl and the twisty, secret-laden tension of One of Us Is Lying, A Thousand Perfect Lies delivers prep-school glamour, sisterly redemption, and a mystery that turns privilege into peril.
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If you have read Monica Murphy before, then you know she’s the queen of YA romances. She has dabbled in YA suspense/mystery before with Pretty Dead Girls, so I liked seeing her step into this genre once again.
I would absolutely agree that this book is in line with individuals who like Gossip Girl. However, for those of you who read mystery/suspense on the regular like myself, please remember this is not Monica’s normal genre, so you might be able to figure some things out faster than her readers of YA and NA romance.
The pacing of this story was good. I liked how things were unraveled as the story progressed but also keeping the reader guessing. The part that was difficult for me to accept was the insta-romance between Billie and Connor. I felt like that should have been blended in better and maybe not so rushed at the beginning.
Honestly, if you are a Monica Murphy fan – you will love this book. It has all her wonderful YA elements with some added mystery that I know her readers will really enjoy.
As a mystery reader, I still enjoyed this one because I really love Monica’s writing and her story lines. It didn’t bother me that I was able to figure some things out. I enjoyed the story and how it was told.
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