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The Good Liar

The Good Liar, January 2008
by Laura Caldwell

MIRA
Featuring: Michael Waller; Kate Livingston; Liza Kingsley
416 pages
ISBN: 0778325016
EAN: 9780778325017
Mass Market Paperback
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"To Trust or Not To Trust"

Fresh Fiction Review

The Good Liar
Laura Caldwell

Reviewed by Beth Swanson
Posted March 23, 2008

Thriller Psychological

Kate Livingston has been best friends with Liza Kingsley her entire life. So when Liza wants to set her up on a blind date, she goes for it. When the blind date evolves into a relationship and eventually marriage, no one could be more surprised or pleased.

Michael Waller, is settling down. He and Kate are married now and he wants out of the Trust. He's getting older and wants to spend his time with Kate, not traipsing the world for the Trust. You see the Trust is a covert agency that sends operatives, like Michael and Liza, all over the world to do things that most would consider illegal at best. He does these things in the best interest of the nation. The catch is that is that he's sworn to secrecy. Kate can't know what he's done or what he's doing. She can't know that the restaurant that he's opened is actually a cover for the Trust. The mysterious "private" rooms downstairs, the ones that are private even from her, are actually meeting places for operatives and power players from all over the world.

As time passes and Kate discovers more and more secrets are being kept, she finds passports with his picture but different names. His frequent trips become more and more mysterious when Kate is unable to reach him for long stretches of time. Finally she gets enough information to follow him and finds the biggest secret of all. When Michael finally confesses all, Kate's not sure if she can accept the truth. The truth that her best friend and her husband have led secret lives and both of them shut her out of them completely.

Liza knows that the trust isn't going to take well to their secrets being exposed to an outsider, so she wasn't surprised at all when she gets the call that both Michael and Kate are to be eliminated, to contain the problem. What does surprise her is that Kate uncovers a plan that the Trust has put into action to eliminate her as well.

Michael, Kate, and Liza know that they're in for the fight of their lives. They need to find a way to survive the attack of the trust and expose the corrupt leaders in the organization for what they are. Can they find a way to survive? Can Kate and Michael repair the damage all of the lies created? Can Kate and Liza find a way to continue the friendship that they've had for so many years?

THE GOOD LIAR is a good book, with as much depth as you could want in a book. It starts off a little slow, but if you can hang with it, you'll get your money's worth. I'd recommend this to anyone that enjoys a good psychological thriller with a lot of intrigue. Just make sure that you stick with it through the first half. It only gets better from there!

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SUMMARY

Kate Livingston and Liza Kingsley have been best friends since their childhood in the suburbs of Chicago. They know everything about each other. Or do they?

When Liza sets up the newly divorced Kate with Michael Waller, an elegant man sixteen years her senior, neither woman expects Kate to fall for him so soon. The relationship is a whirlwind that enthralls Kate?and frightens Liza. Because Liza knows she may have introduced Kate to more than her dream man; she may have unwittingly introduced her to a dangerous world of secrets.

And yet Kate marries Michael and follows him to a French-Canadian town called St. Marabel, where she begins to suspect that Michael isn't exactly who he seems. As each new suspicion arises, Kate finds herself investigating her husband, but what she doesn't know is that she's about to steer her friendship with Liza on a collision course that will race from the U.S. to Russia and from Canada to Brazil, and the betrayals she uncovers could cause the end of all of them.


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