What a crazy suspenseful book! Wow! I never would have guessed the ending. That’s actually a rare thing for me to not figure out. That being said it doesn’t mean that it wasn’t believable... I just didn’t figure it out.

"I received a complimentary copy of this book from NetGalley on behalf of the Publisher and was under no obligation to post a favorable review."

Thank you to NetGalley, T. M. Logan and St. Martin's Press for the opportunity to read this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This book was just ok for me. The premise is great, the first half of the story is exciting, but the ending just killed it for me. I enjoyed the story, but did not like the ending.

Joe's entire life changes the day that his son notices his Mommy's car.. and they follow it.. to surprise her! They follow her all the way to a hotel where she is having a heated discussion with a friend of theirs, Ben. What follows is a tumultuous series of events... Joe can't quite figure out if he can trust his wife and Ben is setting him up for murder. As he tries to convince the police that he's innocent in this whole mess, he relies on his own haphazard, stressed out ideas to play detective himself.

I read through this in almost one sitting-- I was on a plane for 4+ hours, so that helped. Anyway, this is a run of the mill thriller, almost like a whodunnit. There are some unrealistic things going on (the police investigation), but I found Joe's overall predicament entertaining. The writing was overall humdrum and nothing special. Read this if you're looking for a quick read, something entertaining but not necessarily complex or in depth.

It has been awhile since a thriller/suspense surprised and satisfied me with the ending. So many that I have read lately have gripped me the whole way through only to phone in the ending and leave me feeling cheated. This book renewed my faith in good and surprising endings.

Joe Lynch is a likable guy and a sweet dad to William, which makes it easy to root through him throughout the book. Mel Lynch was not that likable to me but I wanted Joe and William to be happy so I tried to keep an open mind.

The idea of so much social media and digital footprints is really interesting and I liked the use of it in this book...who is really behind the messages?

I would absolutely recommend this book to readers, and I have already purchased a copy for my library.

What an entertaining read. Kept me hooked from the start. Lots of suspense. It finishes up with a super twist at the end. Recommended

A great read! There was a whole lot of background story, plot twists that I suspected but thought nawww, no way.... I really enjoyed getting to know these characters. Both loving and hating some of them. Very well written!

I liked this book enough to buy TM Logan's second book. The plot was intriguing and kept my attention throughout. It did stretch credulity a bit, but only enough to be fun and not annoying to the reader who's job it is to suspend disbelief. A fun summer read!

I am really undecided on this one, I really wanted to like this book, loved the cover and the blurb on what it was about. But I just could not bring myself to care about any of the characters in the book. The twist at the end was the only thing that made it interesting.

Holy Psychological Thriller Batman! Maximum Frustration Level Alert! This book had me on the edge of my seat, screaming out loud while drowning in blindsides! I felt my blood pressure rising with every page and the ending almost made my head explode. Thanks goodness it didn't or I wouldn't be able to rave to you about this one!

Joe Lynch is a good guy. He's the perfect husband, doting father, always seems to do the right thing, and say the right things. He loves his kid so very much, and when they spot her car entering a hotel car park one day, of course Joe will follow her in so his sweet son can say hello to Mummy. But Mummy seems to be having a strangely intense argument, with a family friend. She leaves, but Joe manages to catch up with Ben, and an altercation ensues that leaves Ben unconscious, just as his young son has an asthma attack. Joe must make a decision, and he of course, chooses his son's life and leaves. But when he returns, Ben is gone.

Cue the insanity! Messages start coming in, fingers start pointing at Joe for Ben's disappearance, and his entire life starts crumbling apart. This guy just cannot catch a break! I found myself rooting for Joe the entire time. He's genuinely such a good guy. I was insanely suspicious of every person in this story aside from Joe. You'd never think he'd hurt a fly. Or would he? Let's just say I was wild-goose-chasing all sorts of motives and suspects, up until the very end. This story is crafted so well to really have you guessing different around every corner.

The suspense is intense, the pace is fast and mystery is so compelling that I think many people will have a very hard time putting this book down until the very last page is turned. A stunning debut thriller!

<b>Lies</b> - what if you woke up one day and found out your entire life was built on lies. Dozens of them. And as soon as you find out about one, more and more start coming out of the woodwork. Who do you trust? How do you make your life go back to normal?

Joe Lynch is an average guy with an average life, until one day, he catches his wife Mel having a heated conversation with Ben, a family “friend” at a local hotel. The lies that follow throw Joe, Melissa and Ben’s lives in tailspin’s that you wouldn’t believe.

I personally found Joe’s character to be very...dim witted and because of this, I didn’t enjoy the book nearly as much. I also felt that it was similar to other books of this genre and very easily predictive.

Joe is married to Melissa "Mel" and they have a precocious 4-year-old boy named William "Wills." Joe is driving Wills home from school when Wills spots his mother's Volkswagen turning into a hotel parking garage. They decide to find her and say hello to her. Joe spots her with Ben, the husband of Mel's best friend Beth. They seem to be in a heated discussion so Ben and Wills leave and wait in the parking ramp to talk to Ben. Joe confronts Ben and it leads to an altercation with Ben falling, hitting his head on the cement and getting knocked out. Joe leaves and goes home and Ben is subsequently reported as missing by his wife. From there, the story takes on more twists and turns than a corkscrew with a surprise ending I would never had imagined. I thoroughly enjoyed this page turner and I highly recommend it to anyone who loves a good thriller.

Many thanks to St. Martin's Press and Netgalley for the chance to read and review this novel.

Though I love reading, I often hate starting new books as it typically takes some time to get into the story and figure out the setting, characters, etc (I know, blasphemy), so when a book is able to grab me from the very first page I know I'm going to love it. It's always a relief to immediately find myself interested in what I'm reading and Lies was the epitome of easy, fast-paced reading. 

I normally enjoy reading from the female perspective, because I'm obviously a female myself. However, I found this book to be a refreshing take on the male perspective. Oftentimes, the female characters are those being wronged in the domestic thrillers I read, the ones with the cheating spouse, and the ones being all-around victimized. It was intriguing to read this stance from the male point-of-view for a change! I was also quite pleased with the heartwarming father-son relationship depicted in the story, which only makes the reader root for the main character all the more.

This is the type of Thriller that makes readers question everything they're told in life, leaving everyone looking at suspiciously at those closest to them. One of my favorite things about reading this story was that I was able to have every question answered. Like every suspense novel or movie, I wanted to shout at the main character at times to follow through with the obvious choice to get him out of certain situations. Later in the novel, however, my questions would be answered as to why he didn't take the action I was internally shouting for him to. I greatly appreciated the author's attention to detail! I truly believe this novel stands in a league of its own and would make an exciting book-to-screen adaptation in the future.

Something I didn't notice until I was nearing the conclusion was that I had not tried even once to predict the ending as I was reading. I was completely immersed and if I would have wagered a guess about what would have happened, I would have been completely wrong. Lies was a whirlwind from beginning to end. I even dreamt about this book in relation to my own life during the night! It was ingrained in my subconscious, making me feel as anxious as the main character. This story was meticulously plotted, easy to follow, full of suspenseful questions, and was thoroughly unpredictable. If every novel in the genre could be as exciting as Lies I would be a pleased reader. 

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When you have a title like Lies, you know from the start to not believe what is being told by the people/characters involved. But to try and read between the lines from whose are apart of the story.

Joe and his son Will, travel the same routes each and every day. But when the son see his Mums car, they decide to follow her and surprise her. But Joe is the one being surprised. His wife Mel, is not going to the place he thought she was going that time of day. He watches a confrontation between Mel and their friend Ben and it was heated conversation they were having. Of course, Joes mind going wild with so many ideas that might be why the two were arguing. And this is where lies start being told and piling up.

Questions are raised and asked. Lies are told. It’s up to Joe to piece them all together with all that happened that day is still going on. What was going on with Mel and Ben? Was it just work stuff? When Ben goes missing even more questions come to mind. Does it have anything to do with that day? So many questions and so many half truths being told, it was hard to tell who was telling the truth.

I have to admit, when I first started reading this I was a little worried. It started out a little too slow for me and I just despised Mel from the start. I did however want to root for Joe to pieces everything together. Now Beth who happens to be Ben’s wife, I just felt awful for her with his disappreance. She needed her friends and their help to get through all. It did end up being a cast of characters you don’t whether hate or root for though with the events that were taking place. The suspense built and built as the story progressed and the pace picked up immensely and I didn’t want to put it down.

With the questionable characters, the mounting lies, the suspense was fantastic all the way the way up until the end. The big twist that was revealed shocked me, I had it all wrong and I certainly didn’t see if coming. Being stumped with this type of read for me is a bonus. This is one amazing thriller and I think fans of the genre will devour it.

What a masterfully written tale! The characters were remarkably well done. It was hard to out this book down from start to finish, and it kept your mind thinking and puzzling it out throughout the entire read. I absolutely loved it and can't recommend it enough.

Joe is happily satisfied with his life, married with a young son. He finds out that his wife has a relationship with her best friend's husband and that she has lied and continues to lie to him about it. Things go from bad to worse for Joe as he finds himself caught up in an web of deceit as he is accused of murder.

This is a fast-paced thriller and the storyline is great throughout most of the books, although I found the ending unconvincing and written poorly - it felt very lazy of the author to reveal the truth in a James Bond style of 'you'll never escape with your life so I will confess to everything'. The truth revealed was a really good twist which I didn't see coming, so it was almost doubly disappointing.

I do recommend this book if you enjoy an action story. It's very much a page turner.

I received this book from netgalley.com as an ARC for an honest review. I enjoyed this book i. This was a page turning book with a great story line. It all begins when a husband and his son spot his wife talking to her best friend's husband. The book is quite fascinating. From that point on the book is terrific. I couldn't put it down till I finished it. The name of the book is Lies and it is perfect for this book. Lies, lies and more lies to the husband Joe who finally figures out what is going on, but not till the very end of the book. The other reason I enjoyed this book so much is that it was a true psychological thriller with a twist ending that I never saw coming. I knew thatJoe was innocent but the ending was mind blowing. I highly recommend this book if you like this kind of genre which happens to be one of my favorite type of book. (less)

I had the pleasure to receive an ARC of this book. This will definitely make the fall must read list. It is definitely a book to read. Not only is it gripping from the first page it is also written up to date with the latest technologies and makes your mind wonder (and fear) that some of the things that happen could really happen. I got a feeling of what was going on early on in the book but kept reading because the book is written in a way were you want to know if your right. I was close to the truth but at the same time nowhere near the truth! This is a great weekend/snowed in read.
I give it 4 and 3/4th out of 5 stars because I wasn't expecting the conclusion.

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Wow! I didn’t see that ending coming! A nice guy with a good, loving family starts out on a normal everyday morning. That was the last really normal thing to happen to him for quite some time. He reaches a point where he questions everything and nothing is normal anymore. Surprise and unexpected ending makes this a must-read book.

Read this book! I love thrillers and now there are so many it’s hard to know which ones are worth reading so I can assure you this one is. This book is impossible to out down. Our narrator Joe is a perfectly stand up guy who suddenly finds his life absolutely torn apart. He is the perfect narrator. He is sympathetic and will quickly win you over. That’s important because most of this book is really just his internal monologue. Lately most books seem to switch narrators and POV so it was a nice change to follow Joe and only know what he knows.

This book is kind of like the Fugitive with a lot less conflict. If Dr. Kimble were trying to clear himself without Tommy Lee Jones tracking him down because the police in this book are all bad cop and no good cop. Also if Harrison Ford had been a teacher instead of a doctor so with a lot less resources. Also with a lot less time on the run. Oh and instead of a wife he loved we have Mel the wife who lied. This book is also more about the setting up of a crime than the actual crime. If the evidence says you are a killer and no one believes you what do you do?

This book is fast paced and a great read. There were a few ways the plot could have gone. I happened to guess correctly but it could easily have gone in another direction. It made for a fun read trying to guess where it was going. I can’t wait to read more by this author. I do wish some unanswered questions had been cleared up a bit but the ending was full speed ahead so there was perhaps no time for that.

Joe Lynch is living a low-keyed life. He has a job as a teacher, a loving wife and a precocious son. As usual, he gets up, goes to work and retrieves his son for the ride home. But this time he sees something that jars his world. He unexpectedly sees his wife in an unusual location and in an odd situation. Joe cannot comprehend what he is seeing. When he later questions his wife a story unfolds that makes Joe question what he knows, whom he trusts and even who he is becoming. Social media is embedded in Joe’s journey that amps up psychological twists that are unpredictable. No one can be relied upon. This is a world, which Joe must navigate although he is very unprepared to confront adversaries and trust friends. This is a quick novel of suspense that goes down very odd pathways. Recommended.