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Title details for Liar Liar by Nancy Boyarsky - Available

Liar Liar

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by Nancy Boyarsky
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The truth is elusive in Liar Liar.
"Tough and likeable" (Foreword Reviews) Nicole Graves finds herself in the crosshairs when she reluctantly agrees to babysit a witness in a high-profile rape trial. Mary Ellen Barnes is suing her university's star quarterback for rape when the authorities won't act. In the court of public opinion, Mary Ellen appears to be the quintessential, pious, good girl. But her lies and mysterious comings and goings lead Nicole to suspect that she’s not what she seems.
It isn't just Mary Ellen who's acting suspiciously. No one wants to own up to the truth in Liar Liar, not even Nicole, whose fiance; begs her not to look into the case. But when the witness goes missing during the trial, Nicole is caught up in a tangle of lies that turns deadly. After the investigator assigned to the case fails to do his job, Nicole is determined to find the killer on her own, no matter the risks.
"Boyarsky's imagination serves up a court case that plays with expectations during an era where we push to believe women, resulting in some real bad baddies whom it feels good to root against." -Foreword Reviews
"Nicole Graves is the best fictional sleuth to come down the pike since Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone." -Laura Levine, author of the popular Jaine Austen Mysteries
"Liar Liar creates exquisite tension..."-Midwest Book Review

  • Creators

  • Series

    Nicole Graves Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    September 25, 2018

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781611532531
      • File size: 1380 KB

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781611532531
      • File size: 2240 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      July 15, 2018
      A third appearance for Nicole Graves, now a rookie investigator for an LA firm, revolves around a virginal student's accusation that she's been raped by her Christian college's star athlete.Though she didn't say anything for two months after she had sex with quarterback Doshan Williams, Mary Ellen Barnes is talking plenty now. Fortified and financed by Women Against Rape, she now says Doshan forced her, and she wants to tell her story in a Santa Monica courtroom. Until she doesn't, maybe because Nicole's provided limited protection from the paparazzi who stalk Mary Ellen, maybe because she doesn't want to be cross-examined about such intimate details by George Goodman, Doshan's attorney, maybe because, as she tearfully tells Nicole one night, she's lying through her teeth, turning a consensual encounter into an accusation of rape at the behest of an anonymous blackmailer who's threatened to ruin her life, complete with a steamy online video, if she doesn't. Which story Mary Ellen has told is the truth? Before Nicole can investigate, her charge runs off and is soon found murdered when the tide under Santa Monica Pier reveals her inadequately buried body. End of story--or it would be if Doshan weren't promptly arrested for Mary Ellen's murder, leading Nicole, who's repeatedly promised her fiance, architect Josh Mulhern, that her involvement with this unsavory case will end, to probe more and more deeply into the facts, leaving Josh outraged and fans of the series (The Bequest, 2017, etc.) utterly unsurprised. Now that the author has sprung her best surprises, her moves become less fast-paced, more conventional, and less compelling, and the mystery isn't so much wound up as allowed to run down.Though Boyarsky adds nothing to currently raging debates about sexual assault, readers whose appetites for he-said, she-said haven't been sated by the spate of recent #MeToo headlines are invited to prolong their engagement just a little bit longer.

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