At the prestigious Falcon Academy in the Colorado mountains, everyone lies about something. After a startling revelation, three women’s lives collide and result in a horrific act of vengeance in THE LYING CLUB.
Natalie Bellman works in the front office of the Falcon Academy where the rich, entitled children and their parents play by their own rules. Falcon parent Brooke Elliman-Holt, is an heiress, who cheats on her husband and micromanages her daughter Sloane’s life. Asha Wilson, another Falcon parent to young Mia, sells luxury homes and wonders why her husband has been distant lately and her daughter so angry and cold. Both Brooke and Asha want to elevate their daughters’ college soccer prospects and their competitive natures have them clamoring to sign their daughters up for private sessions with the school’s magnetic assistant athletic director, Nick Maguire.
Meanwhile, Natalie is developing her own relationship with Nick, and she’s not too happy with the attention Nick receives from all the soccer moms or female students. Natalie has a past, and she is trying hard to control her emotions. When she blacks out one night, she’s not sure if she is the one responsible for the mangled body in the school gymnasium. The detectives are asking a lot of questions that Natalie can’t answer. Can she piece together moments from the past few months to figure out what really happened in that gym?
THE LYING CLUB is a compulsively readable novel. It starts with an unreliable narrator with a questionable past and then throws in a cast of entitled privileged parents who are providing their children with everything they want, but nothing they need. There’s lies, jealousy, deceit, and psychopathic behavior as the characters navigate around each other trying to uncover the truth and salvage the damage they have already done. It is expertly plotted with several revelations that send the novel in a new direction. It is scarily plausible in a world where youth athletics have become so competitive that a parent’s drive, supersedes the safety of their children. It is what happens when we lie to ourselves about our marriages and the behaviors of our children, or when we let our guard down. There is redemption in the end with a nice twist on who administers the final punishment. Readers will be hooked until the final pages in this highly addictive suspense thriller. Highly recommended.
At an elite private school nestled in the Colorado mountains, Natalie, an office assistant, dreams of having a life like the school moms she deals with every day. Women like Brooke—a gorgeous heiress, ferociously loving mother and serial cheater—and Asha, an overprotective mom who suspects her husband of having an affair. Their fates are bound by the handsome assistant athletic director Nicholas, whom Natalie loves, Brooke wants and Asha needs.
But when two bodies are carried out of the school one morning, it seems the tension between mothers and daughters, rival lovers, and the haves and have-nots has shattered the surface of this isolated, affluent town—where people stop at nothing to get what they want.
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