Lisa Scottoline’s newest book, One Perfect Lie comes out next week. It is a ‘sit on the edge of your seat and remember to breath’ novel! The plot evolves as the story moves on holding your attention.

One Perfect Lie starts out with a man named Chris who was applying for a job as a coach and a social studies teacher in a local high school. As the story unfolds your prediction meter is constantly moving. First you think one thing because of the clues dropped. Later something happens and you rearrange your prediction with the new information and just as you begin to gain more confidence in your prediction - something more happens and blows your prediction back to scratch!

I loved the book! It was well written, timely, with enough twists to keep you interested. I usually like Lisa Scottoline’s books, but this one was in its own category of Holy Moly - really! Definitely a great read!

ONE PERFECT LIE
LISA SCOTTOLINE


MY RATING ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️▫️
PUBLISHER St. Martin Press
PUBLISHED April 2017


SUMMARY
Chris Brennan was just hired for a teaching and coaching job at Central Valley High School. The problem was he wasn't a teacher, he was a fraud. His resume was a fake. He had plans, other than teaching. He had scoped out the teachers and students before applying for this job. He was looking for someone, someone in particular. But first he needs to find an unwitting kid to help him with his plans. Someone he can pump for information. Someone on the baseball team.

In One Perfect Lie we meet Jordan, Raz, Evan, Dylan and their families. All of these boys are on the Musketeers baseball team, and they are all hiding secrets. Coach Chris intentional causes some friction among the team members. But why? Time is running short, he only has three days to figure out who is who. But who is Chris Brennan? Who is he looking for and why? Once he sees a picture, everything falls into place. Did he figure it out in time?


REVIEW
One Perfect Lie is an enthralling crime story, set in a small town in South Central Pennsylvania. You can't help but fall in love with Chris Brennan, almost all the girls at Central Valley High School have. He is single, good-looking and quite the gentleman. But he has a job to do, and it has all of his attention. he can't afford to be thinking of anything or anyone else.

I was totally riveted by the story Lisa Scottoline weaves for us in this suspenseful drama, As Chris searches for someone to help him with his plans, we learn more about the teachers and families of Central Valley High School. We soon learn that not everyone is what they seem.

One Perfect Lie was simply an enjoyable book that kept me guessing till the end. I highly recommend it. It would be a great beach read!

I had the pleasure of meeting Lisa Scottoline and hearing her speak at a local author event several months ago. She is a great author, an entertaining speaker, and a very impressive person. Her stories are so real and come from her heart, as well as her pen. One Perfect Lie it's no different. I bet there is a good story behind this book!

Thanks to Netgalley and Saint Martin's Press and Lisa Scottoline for an advanced reading copy of this book.

Chris Brennan is applying for a job as a high school government teacher, as well as assistant baseball coach. On the surface he is perfect. Everything checks out and he aces his final interview and begins teaching.

But everything about Chris Brennan is a lie.

Taking a keen interest in 3 boys in particular. Raz, whose father recently died and along with his brother, Ryan and his mom Susan, they are a bit broken and vulnerable right now. Acting out and jeopordizing a possible baseball scholarship.

Justin is a quiet boy living with his single mother, Heather, who has concerns already over one of her sons friends.

Evan Kostis, who seems to be suffering from the affluenza that a lot of affluent teens are suffering from, is also keeping secrets. Secrets with and for his father. Mom, Mindy is still trying to move past the affair her doctor husband had and spends most of her days snooping on him and her son, in between slugging gin and tonics.

All three boys are vulnerable in some way. But what does Chris have to do with them? Who is really? Does he even know anymore?

Full of suspense and very timely this book has the type of ending I love. Multiple subplots that get wrapped up in a big Bang at the end!

It is appropriate that Ms. Scottoline will be in Oklahoma City the day her book comes out! April 11th. She will be speaking at at the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club for an event sponsored by the Literary Voices and Metropolitan Library on April 11th. Check out any remaining tickets or information at Metropolitan Library
Lisa Scottoline Author Event

Wednesday, April 12, 2017
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Northwest Library
Rooms A-B (AB)
This event you need to register for and you can do that at the same site above!



xx Books,Books,and More Books Patricia

This was my first Lisa Scottoline book and wow have I been missing something! Chris has come to town and applied to be the new history teacher and coach. It is obvious from the start that this is a cover for something nefarious. But why would somebody want to infiltrate a high school? And why would he be driving around town looking for things to use to cause a big explosion intending to injury thousands of people? Well, that is the first mystery. The second mystery is why Chris targets specific kids and is trying to get close to them. Honestly, my Boy Scout Youth Protection Training kicked in and I started wondering about sexual abuse and grooming. I won’t spoil the mystery but will tell you that it isn’t pedophilia or human trafficking. But what follows is a crazy series of events involving Chris and those kids. Some of the action near the end felt a bit unbelievable, but it was an enjoyable journey getting there.

Lisa Scottoline returns following Most Wanted landing on my Top Books of 2016 with her latest, ONE PERFECT LIE. A mysterious new teacher lands at a high school. Is he a fraud?

A twisty suburban domestic crime thriller, keeping you on the edge-of-your-seat, classic Scottoline style.

“Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others." — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Chris Brennan is applying for a teaching job at Central Valley High School, but he is not forthcoming about his past. He had scoped out the school and the teachers in advance.

After all, everyone liked a clean-cut guy, and they tended to forget that appearances were deceiving.

Even a fake resume. His resume says he went to Northwest College in Wyoming. He even picked a housing development nearby, Valley Oaks.

The small town is located in south-central Pennsylvania, known for its outlet shopping. No one would imagine what he was up to. His story was his parents passed away five years earlier in a car crash (drunk driver). An only child he says, so he decided to come to the area for higher pay and he loved kids.

Chris led the officials at school to believe he wanted to be accessible to his students on email, social media and believed in personal contact and mutual respect. He also said he coached. He even applied for the assistant baseball varsity coach position.

What better way to get connected? He was setting up a plan. Chris is not who he pretends to be.

What is his motive?

Chris bonds immediately with students. Can he fool the other teachers? Can he be trusted?

We meet a variety of moms, students, and teachers. Susan, Raz, Heather, Justin, Mindy, and Evan. The baseball team. Chris keeps abreast all the families and all the activities. Will he accomplish his mission? He puts his plan in place.

Mr. Y (Abe Yomes) gay, African American who teaches eleventh grade. He also lived in the town with his partner Jamie who owned a realty company. He is from Wyoming (for real).

Soon enough, however, Mr. Y is dead, an apparent suicide, and Chris is ready to move forward with his plan. There are certain people he needs to befriend. They are all part of his plan. Chris targets three teenage boys.

Absorbing and entertaining, you never know what is going on in suburbia. Domestic terrorism? Justice? Take a walk down Wisteria Lane. Domestic suspense is all the rave today. What goes on "behind closed doors" in normal neighborhoods. The lies we tell ourselves as well as each other.

Action-packed family drama, a thriller complex ride with lots of twists, turns, secrets, cover-ups, and suspense. Scottoline once again surprises her readers with contemporary issues and topics which filter into our lives.

A special thank you to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for an early reading copy.

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I love Lisa Scottoline and her books. I wasn't sure I wanted her to deviate from writing about Dinunzio and the group but I have been pleasantly surprised by the stand alones she has been writing that have a great twist. One Perfect Lie was no exception. I enjoyed it tremendously and look forward to adding it to my ever growing collection of Lisa's books.

I received this book for free from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

Wow! What a ride. “One Perfect Lie” by Lisa Scottoline is a thriller/suspense novel and it is certainly in the correct category. I could not put it down.

I have read several of the author’s novels, so I was ready to start reading; therefore, I did not read the synopsis beforehand and did not know the storyline.

This book is so expertly written that I had no clue what was really happening. From the reader’s perspective, it seems Chris is involved in something truly sinister. I enjoyed trying to guess what he was up to so much that I almost wished I did not know his identity and the plan to blow up something so early in the book.

“One Perfect Lie”… let’s ponder that a moment. What is the perfect lie? Is it Chris and his undercover life? Is it Paul and his affair/medical fraud? Is it Evan and his sordid affair with his teacher or his plot to blow up something? Is it Mindy and the lies she told herself about her son/family? So many lies in this book… it was great! To quote the cover, “the most perfect lie is the one you tell yourself.” However, we learn that no lie is perfect, even one told for a good/valid reason as the truth always comes out in the end.

After reading the section of the book where Mindy FINALLY finds out what her husband has been hiding from her it truly made me think about my relationship with my husband. Do I really know him as well as I think I do? Is he really at work when he says he is working late? (No worries to my friends who may read this… it’s hard to fake the sounds of the machine room and far too many people to rat him out!) But, it did give me reason to pause. Then I started wondering about my friends (sorry, peeps). What are they up to behind closed doors? What are their spouses and children up to in the dead of night? Do I really know anyone?

Great story line and ending… everything is wrapped up very neatly. Lots of twists and turns that I truly did not see coming. Solid 5 stars. As with her other best sellers, this is a “don’t miss” novel.

One of your best books to date. Love all the characters, you have done wonders with teenage boys!

For me, this book could almost be divided into two distinct sagas. The first half was chilling and unexpected, psychologically fascinating. Then there was an abrupt turn slightly before the halfway mark, and it shifted into more of a solid crime drama. The brightest moments were when the main character was interacting directly with the high schoolers he was manipulating, testing them, questioning them, isolating them--the sinister part of me especially enjoyed seeing these interactions unfold.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC of One Perfect Lie by Lisa Scottoline that I read and reviewed.
This book was one of the best books that I have read so far this year. When I started reading the book I thought it was going one way then suddenly it was going in a different direction and I was like WOW I loved how couldn't put this book down.
I fell in love with the character of Chris from the start. Even when I could not tell what he was up too I was in love with his personality, how he acted and pretty much everything about him. Then as the book moved on and I learned more about him I thought it was genius that the main character of this book was a male. It added something more to the story, I personally felt.
I also enjoyed the three families the book followed because they were all so real and so typical of what you would find in a regular high school and small town. Each one had their own problems and their own things that they were dealing with behind closed doors. All three boys were your typical high school athlete in some ways but in others had their own secrets they were hiding.
I am not going to give anything away because of spoilers but I am going to say this is a must read. It had me guessing and I could not out it down. Truthfully, as I said a great read.
I am giving One Perfect Lie five out of five stars.

I'm sorry to say that I haven't read a Lisa Scottoline book before ONE PERFECT LIE. The book was very good and I couldn't stop reading it, it was a page turner. Liked the characters, especially Chris, Heather and Jordan, they seemed very real to me. The twists and turns throughout made me dizzy a times. Loved how that ONE PERFECT LIE would eventually lead to happy outcome. And will be looking for more books by Lisa Scottoline.

Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to preview the book.

I loved everything about this book. I read it quickly because I could not put it down. It started with a story line that I thought I had 100% figured out, and then immediately switched and I didn't know anything about the main character that I had spent countless chapters reading about. Lisa has a fantastic gift for drawing the readers in to the characters' heads, and makes it hard to forget them once they're gone.

I really enjoyed this book and can't wait to gift it to friends!

I loved this book! It kept me on the edge, just when I thought I had things figured out something else would come up. Very well researched and written.

This is a great read. Things are not what they seem..could not put it down.

Lisa Scottoline has penned another affecting and entertaining stand-alone thriller in “One Perfect Lie.” Chris Brennan has just taken a job as a high school government teacher and assistant coach for the baseball team. He seems like the perfect candidate for the job, yet nothing about Chris is what it seems. He’s hiding a great deal, but so are the boys on the baseball team and their parents. The gradual revelation of these secrets produces some sensational plot twists, particularly the stunner about a third of the way through the book. I don’t want to provide any spoilers, so all I will say is that Scottoline maintains a high level of suspense throughout the book, while also delving into the characters’ lives and perfectly capturing high school life. My only reservation with the book was that the James Bond type heroics at the conclusion of the book seemed a little over the top. That small quibble is totally redeemed by the wise and highly appropriate advice from one of the characters - “She was ditching Facebook and going back to real books.” An excellent idea, and “One Perfect Lie” is a great place to start!

My review was posted on Goodreads 3/31/17.

Suspense and twists abound in this story, my first read from this author and it was captivating.
I will skip past a recap of the blurb, since you've read it. The book starts with a chain of lies. Lies devised by one Chris Brennan, teacher and coach who comes to a small town in Pennsylvania but why? What's his motive? More importantly what's the end game?
Woven through the story are subplots mainly of the three main young high school students he coaches and their families. Pretty edgy stuff and serves to throw the reader even more off balance. Well done. The book is fast paced, reads well and the twists are turns never stop. Right up to the last page. I really did like Chris (and the Rabbi) Lies or no lies, serves us all to see below the surface and look a little deeper. Things are definitely not always the way they appear.
Great story. Loved it.

**arc from NetGalley and St Martins in exchange for a fair review**

One Perfect Lie

by Lisa Scottoline

St. Martin's Press

General Fiction (Adult) , Mystery & Thrillers

Pub Date 11 Apr 2017

I am voluntarily reviewing One Perfect Lie through the publisher and Netgalley:

Things aren't always what they seem and that is certainly the case with Chris Brennan. Chris Brennan is a fake he has applied for a teaching job at Cental Valley High School but he is a fake. On paper he looks perfect, but in reality...

Chris in fact isn't Chris at all but in fact Curt Abbott. Curt in fact has something else in mind, something sinister. He rents a truck big enough to carry an ANFO bomb but is he out to hurt people or help them?



Ryan's Mother senses something is wrong he is being secretive and one night she gets a call from him saying he's at the police station. Ryan is arrested for burgularly .

Raz is angry, throwing a bat in anger when he does not make it as a starter.

When Abe ends up Everyone believes it is a suicide and the first Sunday after his death Chris knows better though. Abe was murdered and he vows to get justice for the teacher.

Soon the teammates start getting pics of naked girls. Sexts.

When Raz's Mother finds a gun in her Son's room, she's fearful.

Is Curt really a bad guy, or is he out to catch the bad guys?

Chris isn't who he says he is, in fact he is an Undercover ATF Agent trying to stop something big from going down on the anniversary of The Oaklahoma city bombing.

Can Chris/Curtis stop these people from destroying more lives?

Find out in One Perfect Lie?

Five out of five stars.

Happy Reading!

Good. Solid. Book. Decently paced book that has a good twist about 25% of the way through.

Was interesting to see the mystery unfold, I was continually guessing which varsity player was involved.

I would put this in the category of a good beach read. Not too light, not too heavy but will keep your interest throughout.

Intriguing from the first page! Things are not always what they seem and Scottoline captures that in One Perfect Lie.

Chris Brennan is the new government teacher and assistant baseball coach at Central Valley High School. Raz, Jordan and Ethan are three of his students/players. Raz’s mother Susan is proud of her son, but he’s been in a vulnerable place since his father died. Heather Larkin is a struggling single mother who lives for her son Justin. Ethan and his father are keeping secrets from his mother, Mindy Kostis, who is filling her days with too much to drink. At the center of each of these stories is Chris Brennan. But why does Chris want to be so involved? Is he simply trying to support his students/players? That’s where the suspense and intrigue come into play. You’ll feel compelled to turn the pages to see what lays around the next corner.

There are many characters and a lot is going on, but Scottoline connects them all in a believable, heart pounding story. Not once was I confused by who was who or what part they played. Scottoline develops each character nicely and the story flowed seamlessly. One Perfect Lie was a high octane charged adventure from the beginning. And the twists? Don’t worry suspense junkies. This book has plenty of those.

How does it end? You know I can’t tell you that! I can tell you that all points are brought to a satisfactory close. This reader would have been happy with just a little bit more. Of course, that’s usually the case for me. I just don’t want the stories to end. I want the authors to keep telling me the character’s stories because I have a hard time letting go :) And the suspense was so good that it was hard to come down from the adrenaline high. Grab your copy of One Perfect Lie today! You can thank me later ;)

‘One Perfect Lie’ is a novel full of action and excitement. It starts when Chris Brennan applies for a teaching job at Central Valley High School. Straight away you know that he is not who he seems to be. He is playing a part like the seasoned actor he is and the only thing you actually don’t know is why he is deceiving everyone, which adds to the intrigue and mystery of the story.
Of course he is handsome and charming. He has everybody fooled with his suave chat lines and knowledgeable answers to their questions, once safely installed as a teacher in the school. He is helpful, talented and very friendly. He is very good with his pupils and a willing support to Coach Hardwick as assistant baseball coach. All of the check-ups have endorsed him and he is above suspicion. But we the reader know that his life is a charade and that he is playing the game until the very end.
One of his pupils who is also a member of the baseball team is Jordan, who lives with his mother Heather. He is a talented player who is hoping that he will get through to college on the back of his good conduct, academic record and talent for sport. Immediately Chris identifies Jordan as the perfect candidate to help him with his plans and he befriends him. He is seeking out information from Jordan, playing towards the end game, manipulating him and situations that may play in his favour. ‘Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive’ – and this is only the very beginning of the novel, not the substance of it.
I really enjoyed reading this novel. It gripped me from the very beginning and I was totally unprepared for what the truth would hold as it was gradually revealed. There were thrills and spills, crimes and deceptions and more than one red herring. The characters were deftly created and developed, to a one; interesting and involving. The storytelling was vivid, fast paced and very thrilling. I mistrusted Chris Brennan for his devious behaviour to begin with, but then I changed my mind. You will certainly understand this change of heart when you read this story. I loved Jordan who was a really nice boy, if not a little too trusting. I loved the way the story unwound – it was an absolutely cracking, explosive ending. I would like to thank NetGalley and publisher Headline for my copy of ‘One Perfect Lie’, sent to me in return for an honest review. It is a good read within this genre. Lisa Scottoline is a terrific author, her material varied and her research impeccable, and I’m sure this new novel will be very popular.