The Liar's Girl (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781504782548)

2019 Edgar Award nominee for Best Novel

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 nineteen, 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 ten 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 ...

Author: Catherine Ryan Howard
ISBN-10: 1504782542
ISBN-13: 9781504782548
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Language: English
Published: 02/27/2018
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/11/2017
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2017
Library Journal 01/01/2018 pg. 80
Booklist 02/01/2018 pg. 34
School Library Journal 03/01/2018 pg. 128
Shelf Awareness 03/27/2018