Susannah and Max are enjoying their new life in Vermont, having recently moved there from NYC. Their life is seemingly perfect, but little do they know that their relationship is based on a tangled web of lies. Everything is going well until one day Susannah returns from her run to find a note on her door that says, “I know who you are”. Those five words may change the course of their relationship and their life. Each is worried about the note for different reasons and this note threatens to expose the many secrets of their past and leads to more deception. review: This is the first book I have read by this author and his compelling writing had me from the start. I was so intrigued as to how the story would play out and I was not disappointed. I found myself being so invested in the characters and their lies. It's definitely an addicting book that will keep you turning the page wanting more! rating: 4 out of 5 ⭐️

Susannah thinks she has found her soulmate when she meets Max. After a whirlwind courtship, they marry. Slowly but surely, the relationship starts to unravel.

I would say that Max has a slight edge over Susannah on the level of lies they are keeping. Both of the do have significant secrets and it is only a matter of time before all is revealed. Just when I thought they were both coming to terms with their baggage - BAM - we get a pretty surprising ending.

This was a fun, fast paced. read. It has good suspense and one character I really did not like. Was it Max or Susannah? You'll just have to read this and decide for yourself.!

My thanks to St. Martin's Press and Netgalley.

This story starts off with a young mother, Susannah, who's widowed in her 20s and left with a young son. She meets handsome and charming Max at a work party and sparks fly. Max isn't all what he seems however, as he lies about who he is to get into the party. It's not long before the 2 fall in love and 6 months later are married.

The perfect young family relocates to a small Vermont town where odd things begin happening. A note soon arrives saying "I know who you are" What does it mean, who is it meant for? Tension and anxiety mount and cracks start to show in which we're given hints to the fact that everything isn't all perfect and shiny with this family. More notes follow.

The pace, flow, and short chapters led to me swiftly turning the pages but there were far to many instances in the plot where I had to greatly suspend by disbelief. Too much and too many times. This ultimately kept me from enjoying the story as much as I could've

I Know WHO You Are!

Oh what a tangled web we weave... Imagine you find a note taped to your front door and all it says is: I know who you are! Would you assume they had the wrong house? Assume it was for your spouse? Your child? Or would you know you have something to hide and it was meant for you? This is the note that Susanna and Max found taped to their front door one morning, the note that changed everything, the note that they both thought was intended for them. Two people with many secrets to hide, but only one note, who was it meant for? And who knows the truth? Who truly is the “PERFECT LIAR“?

this was one dark compelling story about two pretty disturbed dishonest people. A marriage that appears like a fairytale on the outside, but is riddled with so much deceit on the inside. Two seemingly well adjusted attractive people with so much to hide. So much to lose. Told from the alternating perspectives of both Susanna and Max this book definitely kept me on my toes.

An engaging and entertaining read, but you will need to suspend your belief a little. There is a stolen identity in this book (don’t worry this is not a spoiler) and a simple Google search could probably clear a lot of things up, but the search was never made, well at least not by the right people. Things like this don’t generally bother me, but it did make me think hmm... so if you are one of those people that needs everything to be realistic, you are forewarned for this one! Despite this the book is highly addictive with some very well drawn despicable characters. So many secrets, so many lies, you never are quite sure whose side to be on, if any. Recommend!

<h1>🎵🎵🎵Song Running Through My Head </h1>

<i>Got a secret
Can you keep it?
Swear this one you'll save
Better lock it, in your pocket
Taking this one to the grave
If I show you then I know you
Won't tell what I said
'Cause two can keep a secret
If one of them is dead?
Why do you smile
Like you have told a secret
Now you're telling lies
'Cause you're the one to keep it
But no one keeps a secret
No one keeps a secret
Why when we do our darkest deeds
Do we tell?
They burn in our brains
Become a living hell
'Cause everyone tells
Everyone tells?</i>

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oNJGAwqV0ys

*** Many thanks to St. Martin’s Press for my copy of this book ***

Twisty and good describes this book for me! I enjoy thrillers that make you second guess things and have unreliable narrators. I kept changing my mind about what I thought was going to happen I love being surprised by a thriller and this delivers all the best parts of a good thriller fast pacing, good characters, twists and some creepy moments!

Thank you to NetGalley, St. Martin's Press and Thomas Christopher Greene for the ARC to review. I was intrigued from the very start. I was convinced the husband was a cold blooded killer. However, when the wife's secret is revealed, I was taken back. I thought husband and wife would then just keep each other's secrets. The ending was brilliant. I was left in shock. I highly recommend.

The Perfect Liar by Thomas Christopher Greene is a mystery/thriller that takes you on a psychological thrill ride of unexpected, yet suspenseful events.

I was hooked within reading the first chapter. The author does a great job of developing the main characters as well as creating scenarios that you envision going one way however these scenarios head into a completely different direction. The ending really surprised me which is hard to do. I was left with a few unanswered questions but that didn’t change the excitement of this read for me.

I received a review copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley for my honest review. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

Synopsis from the Publisher/NetGalley.com
Susannah, a young widow and single mother, has remarried well: to Max, a charismatic artist and popular speaker whose career took her and her fifteen-year-old son out of New York City and to a quiet Vermont university town. Strong-willed and attractive, Susannah expects that her life is perfectly in place again. Then one quiet morning she finds a note on her door: I KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

Max dismisses the note as a prank. But days after a neighborhood couple comes to dinner, the husband mysteriously dies in a tragic accident while on a run with Max. Soon thereafter, a second note appears on their door: DID YOU GET AWAY WITH IT?

Both Susannah and Max are keeping secrets from the world and from each other—secrets that could destroy their family and everything they have built. Thomas Christopher Greene's The Perfect Liar is a thrilling novel told through the alternating perspectives of Susannah and Max with a shocking climax that no one will expect, from the bestselling author of The Headmaster’s Wife.

DNF. I made it to 30% before calling it quits. It was hard for me to follow along and I just could not get into the storyline and the characters like I had hoped I would. It seems like there are a lot of people who enjoyed this one though so I would not be opposed to reading some other work by this author.

Special thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with a free, electronic ARC of this novel in exchange for an honest review.
“The Perfect Liar” is not an original title. In fact, I have now identified a set of books as the “perfect” genre. “The Perfect Girlfriend”, “The Perfect Nanny”, “The Perfect Mother”, “The Perfect Couple”…the list goes on. Similar in both concept and storyline, this novel fits right in as an entertaining, suspenseful, intrigue-fueled novel that has you doubting and leaves you guessing.
Thomas Christopher Greene is a new author to me (although not a new author, this being his seventh published novel) and “The Perfect Liar” was a great introduction for me.
Susannah is a young widow and single mother, so when she found the affable and charming Max and he chose to marry her and was willing to accept her son, Freddy, as his own, Susannah was on top of the world. A self-proclaimed artist and professional speaker, Max accepts a job at a Vermont university and Susannah doesn’t think twice about relocating with him from her home in New York. As the three slowly begin to settle into their new life, Susannah finds a handwritten note on her front door—I KNOW WHO YOU ARE. Max dismisses it, but when another note appears Susannah quickly begins to panic. Who is the note directed for and what do they know? Both her and Max are keeping secrets, from the world and from each other, and it seems that one of them has been found out. But which one? And by whom?
This novel has great characters and each of them have the potential to be both the victim and the perpetrator, and the storyline leaves you guessing. The short chapters (some from Max’s perspective, some from Susannah’s), make the novel an addicting, page-turner.
“The Perfect Liar” is everything a psychological thriller should be. The characters of Max and Susannah are perfect for each other, that’s for certain, and how they wound up together is definitely a twist of fate. Both are keeping dark secrets, built from their own sordid pasts, but yet neither are particularly unlikable. The description of anxiety as the “white bear” and “being trapped in a cage” hit home for me, and this alone made it easy for me to sympathize and relate to Susannah. Greene definitely has some understanding and experience of the beast that is anxiety disorder, and it is depicted without a trace of judgment or blame.
Although the plotline of “do you really know someone?” is not original or particularly new, Greene has found a way to spin it with his own creative touches.
A quick read for those who are fans of who-dunnits and psychological, twisty suspense novels. I will definitely be exploring Greene’s other works and I have a feeling I won’t be disappointed.

This was a great book. Once I started reading I couldn't stop. I felt like I was on a roller coaster. The twists and turns were fantastic. The plot was well developed and I felt like I was right there in the story watching and listening. The characters were written in such a way that my favorite one kept changing. I definitely want to read more by this author. I received this ebook from NetGalley free for an honest review.

A psychological thriller lacking the thriller. There were several points in this book that I wanted to give up on reading the book, but I kept hoping it would get better- that there was more to come. Overall, this book wasn’t very engaging. It was lacking substance and fell short. It was predictable and I I really should have given up on it 30% in when my interested started fading, because nothing else interesting happened from there.

The promise of this book grabbed me and the idea was great but it just didn't work for me. Too many holes and oversight in the plot.

Shame

Reviews seem to be mixed for this book. Usually when that happens I either end up loving it or.... well, you get the picture. Unfortunately, I fell into the latter category. I had high hopes for this book, but it ended up falling short for me. The novel begins well, but I lost interest in the characters. They were too shallow to care about. The storyline became repetitive and I was bored by the halfway point, skimming through the remainder. I won’t ramble on because I think that pretty much says it all.

This was a fun, quick read, but unfortunately I found the premise completely unbelievable. A little googling should have found out Max long ago! But I did enjoy the alternating chapters from the husband and wife. Overall, and enjoyable read.

The Perfect Liar was a good read, not a great read. The pace was consistent, not many OMG moments, where I couldn't put it down. The ending left me thinking, hmmm what was the point of the last "epilogue" type chapter? It didn't fulfill my hope for a surprise twist at the end. So good but not great.

Many thanks to NetGalley, St. Martin’s Press and Thomas Christopher Greene for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review. My opinions are 100% my own and independent of receiving an advanced copy.

Mild spoiler alert.

The Perfect Liar is anything but perfect and I’m getting tired of these mediocre thrillers sucking me in with a promise of being more than what they are. If I am reading a serial, than I expect a certain formula that the author has laid out in previous books. I turn to those when I want something where I know what to expect and don’t expect anything more. I wouldn’t say mind-numbing but more like comfort food. I don’t expect macaroni and cheese to be a braised lamb shank. But sometimes you want mac and cheese and it’s delicious and satisfying. But when I choose a thriller that is billed as fast pace with surprises that keep coming, that’s what I expect. I know, I know. Why do I believe the hype? Because I want to - I want to be taken on that ride.

I don’t like to know too much beforehand, because I want to go into clean. Ready for whatever ride the author is going to take me on. The only thing I knew from the blurb was that there was a married couple who receive a threatening note. Both are lying - to each other and to the world. Then all the usual hype of be ready for shocks and twists and turns. Great. Told in alternating perspectives between Susannah and Max, I dive in. So there is a happy couple and the note happens right away. Both think the note is for Max. In their own chapters we get flashbacks from before they knew each other, to how they met up until where we are currently in their lives. We learn early on that Max did something bad and is hiding it. But never throughout the whole book do we learn about anything bad that Susannah did. Yes, she had a difficult life and made some really bad choices, but nothing like Max. I kept waiting to see how she was lying to the world around her. Plus, Max was not the perfect liar. So many people found out about his lying along the way, including his wife, who always seemed to know when he was lying. So no big surprise there. So the big reveal was anything but a big reveal. The writing was okay and the characters had some development, although I’m not sure about their likability factor. Even Susannah’s son was rude and unlikeable and yes, teenagers are rude and ungrateful, but I never got a glimmer of a close and loving relationship with him. It all seemed one sided.

So, I’m sure many people might like this book, but I wanted more. I expected more. The only perfect liar in this bunch was the PR person who wrote the blurb.

This was a page turner with a number of twists. but I didn’t really care for the characters. The ending seemed rather abrupt and I was expecting much more. It will most likely appeal to others so our library will purchase it.

I had high hopes for this book. The description sounded great and I was expecting a high stakes twisty thriller. But, in reality it fell a bit flat. I didn't really care about any of the characters and their motivations didn't seem realistic.

A great psychological thriller-fast paced and with enough twists and turns to keep you guessing throughout the book. Meet Susannah, a widow with her son Freddy and Max her second husband who has made a name for himself both in the art world and as a speaker living the good life and wanting for nothing. But be careful-nothing is as it seems. When threatening notes start appearing on the front door the subtrifuge and lies perpetuated by all of them lead to murder. It begs the question-do you really know the person you’re living with or do you just think you do?

All seems perfect but nothing is as it seems. Difficult and disturbing read, with gratuitous violence and vulgarity. The characters, while it might have been the author's intent, were unreliable, unlikable and disturbed and really distracted me from enjoying the plot and its potential.

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for providing a digital copy in return for an honest, unbiased review.