A secluded, boarding school with 200 elite, ivy bound females. An outsider with a troubling, secret past. Lies. Hazing. Murder. Good Girls Lie by J.T. Ellison was a suspenseful thriller that kept me wanting more. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Newly orphaned, Ash Carlisle is traveling from England to attend The Goode School. She is an outsider from the start and lands on the head girls radar the very first day. Struggling to keep her past private, Ash tries to learn how to fit in with this elite group of girls. When she finally feels like she’s getting a grip on her new reality, her roommate falls from the bell tower. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
I’m a fan of J.T. Ellison. Lie To Me is one of my top 10 favorite books ever. Just like her previous books, this story kept me guessing, engaged, and wanting to know the truth. Be sure to read this wonderful book when it is released on December 30, 2019.
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Thank you @netgalley and @harlequinbooks for providing me this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Thanks to Netgalley, I received an ARC of this book. It was an easy, quick reading book that kept me guessing until the very end.

Good Girls Lie is a compelling read. Mystery, murder and a secret society this engaging read has a brilliant storyline and intriguing characters. I read this in one sitting as I need to know the outcome, I will be recommending and reading more by this fabulous writer.

I heard of this book from the Bad on Paper podcast and was immediately intrigued. It´s the story of an all girls boarding school in the south, where a British student goes to run from her past. Wow, this was a great read, filled with twists and turns. None of the characters are particularly likable, but you will be turning pages quickly and it was perfect for fall and back-to-school.

The Goode School, in Marchburg, Virginia is not your typical High School. This is an all girls boarding school. Only the daughters of the most richest and influential are accepted in this school. It prepares these girls to get into the best colleges.

What the school was NOT prepared for was a new student coming into their doors at the last minute and causing all sorts of chaos. However this little lad was not just the only one with dark secrets that needed to be hidden. Everyone had their dirty little secret, and one by one it wants to come out.

The start of this story grabs you as it starts with a murder, but then it felt like it stretched so long in the middle. it kept on and on with these characters and then it started picking up towards the end, It was a great plot twist ending though
Thank you at Netgalley,publisher and author for this digital ARC in exchange for my honest review

Queen of the thrill, JT Ellison is back and with a boarding school mystery no less! Where do I sign up!

The Goode School, an all girls boarding school, is no stranger to drama and when Ash Carr arrives from the UK bringing her own baggage (mentally and physically), she's sure to fit right in. Before she knows it, Ash finds herself embroiled in all the drama of the school from things ranging from bullying to hazing and secret societies.

Ellison does a masterful job of creating tension and intrigue in Good Girls Lie and offers shifting perspectives to do so - a tactic I enjoyed very much.

For fans of Ellison, you will absolutely love this one. If you are not already a fan, now is a great time to become one!

I have read a couple other books by JT Ellison which I have loved but unfortunately this just isn't one of them. I could not seem to get into the main character and I wasn't completely blown away by the twist.

J.T. Ellison has knocked it out of the park with this stellar thriller. "Good Girls Lie" is everything you hope for an intriguing mystery. The arrival of a new girl at the exclusive all-girl prep school sets the scene for a story about hidden agendas, masked identities and aged secrets.
When a student is found hanged from the front gates, it's a meeting of the past and future and how it's all perceived. Being rich and famous doesn't equal happiness and security.
The alternating points of view, divided among richly developed characters, keeps you guess about the goings-on at Goode Academy until the last page.

The twists and turns in this book will keep readers on their toes as this suspenseful tale slowly unravels. The readers will get an up close look into an elite boarding school occupied by some out of control high school girls. Extreme hazing, alcohol, drugs and murder are all included in this mystery. Get ready for a crazy ride!
Love this twist at the end! Recommended!

This book was a completely delightful ride. I was hooked from the start and was down for all of the twists and turns that.JT Ellison threw my way.

First up let me just say that I am all about a book set in a boarding school. Add in murder and I’m even more here for it. I’m also a fan of Ellison’s writing so this book felt tailor made for me.

The book opens with the gruesome discovery of one of the students from the boarding school hanging from the front gate. Very dead. But also a little unidentifiable. But when the Dean arrives she knows exactly who it is. But before she can say her name we are sent back in time to when Ash Carr is in her car service arriving at The Goode School. Ash is coming from. England and is a bit of a mystery to the girls in the school who already know each other and have their cliques. She’s a sophomore and she. Instantly earns herself a lot of attention. - most of which is unwelcome. She’d rather fly under the radar and just take advantage of the opportunity to get a top tier education. But you can’t always get what you want.

We soon find out Ash is keeping plenty of secrets - as is most everyone else. And The Goode School is also steeped in a bit of urban legend...and was the site of a of murder a decade earlier. Add in some classic mean girl antics, secret societies and some major mystery and this book deliveries a solid thriller ride.

The book is told in alternating POVs (which I also love) and kept me guessing. There was one trope that I didn’t totally love, but I did really enjoy the characters of Ford (the Dean) and Kate (one of the detectives). I would love to see Kate get her own book too!

I would also note that while this is an adult thriller a lot of the core characters are high school students. It worked for me, but know it’s not for everyone so wanted to mentioned. All. In I enjoyed it and appreciate getting the ARC.

The Goode School is very prestigious, only the best are allowed to attend. There are a lot of things going on behind closed doors at the school.

I was torn on what to rate this book at first. I had a hard time getting into it, almost gave up, but I am glad I persisted. Once it caught my interest I had to keep going to see what would happen next. There are a lot of twists and turns in this story, some I guessed, others came out of the blue. Thank you to net galley for an advanced readers copy of this book.

The Goode School is the best of the best, a prestigious girls prep school that ensures entrance into the Ivy’s. Secret societies run rampant, and as long as everyone agrees to keep it all hush hush, and follow the honor code, students are generally allowed to run free. When Ash arrives at Goode however, things start to get weird. Sudden suicide, murder, etc, and it all seems to center around this one newcomer. What is it with this girl?

I love a good campus novel. While this one was high school not college, it did hit disappoint. There were a few points where I was correct in my guess of what was happening, but a few others where I was completely off base. I loved this book, and even loved most of the characters, as catty, and conniving as they were!

**Thank you to Harlequin Mira, JT Ellison, and Netgalley for this ebook in exchange for an honest review**

Good Girls Lie is a boarding school mystery, which calls to me because I LOVED these types of books in my high school days. Give me some snarky, privileged girls, secret societies, old campuses, and some murder and it's a great combination in a book for me. Good Girls Lie follows Ash Carlisle, a sophomore from England who moves to Virginia to attend the Goode School after both of her parents commit suicide. She is looking for a fresh start where she can just put her head down and get the education she always wanted. When her roommate dies after falling off the bell tower, her world starts to crumble around her. However, this is only the beginning of several events that will up end her life...

Good Girls Lie really allowed me to reminisce to my high school days where I read the Private series by Kate Brian, which is a similar take on ultra-rich, all girl, boarding schools where chaos, hazing, and murder happens. These are almost a guilty pleasure type book for me, and Good Girls Lie definitely fit that bill. There were twists and turns, mysteries, and some nefarious actions by our teenage characters.

One critique I will give is that the ending was fairly confusing. I'm still not 100% sure what exactly happened in that epilogue. Without giving any spoilers, there is a major twist towards the end that changes everything, with an epilogue afterwards. I might need to reread it to fully understand what happened, but some more clarity in the writing would have been nice.

For fans of Kate Brian's Private series, JT Ellison looks at friendships, truth, and secrets in this new, dramatic boarding school based novel.

3.25 stars for this solid, twisty, thriller!

There weren't a whole lot of surprises here, but it was still intriguing and a good read. I stayed caught up in the story and didn't want to put it down... I only gave it a lower rating because I felt a lot of the material was what I would consider typical. There was nothing mind-blowing or extravagant. I did like the twists throughout. The chapter changes that sometimes switched voices and sometimes didn't was a little disconcerting, but overall this was a good read.

Thank you NetGalley!

I really enjoyed this book! Nicely twisty, with the motives of lots of characters obscured. After reading the whole thing I’m still not entirely sure whether some characters were “good” or not. Reminded me a little of The Broken Girls, which I also enjoyed.

The Goode School is an elite all-girls boarding school in Marchburg, Virginia. The Dean Ford comes from a long line of women who’ve headed Goode and she intends to keep them at the top of the ranks. The Goode School is based on a code of honor and integrity, but even still, Ford turns a blind eye to the secret societies and the hazing that happens on campus.

Ashlyn (Ash) Carr is traveling all the way from Oxford, England to attend Goode. She was accepted into the program months earlier due to her excellent piano skills, but since, both her parents have tragically died, leaving Ash an orphan. But now Ash knows that this is exactly what she needs—to get away from her past life and start fresh. As only a sophomore, Ash knows she’s not near the top of the food chain, not like Becca and her posse; the seniors run the school and if you’re lucky enough to get noticed by them, you’ll also have power among the Goode girls.

Before attending Goode, Ash had no idea of its sinister past. Several suspicious deaths have happened on campus and the whole school has an eery feel to it. But when Ash gets noticed by Becca and her secret society, she feels chosen. Her time at Goode is about to change. She thinks it’ll be for the better, but when students start dropping dead left and right, Ash realizes just how wrong she was…

Good Girls Lie is JT Ellison’s latest mystery release. The novel is classified as adult fiction, but I think this leans much more toward YA, especially since it takes place at a boarding school with mostly an adolescent cast of characters. I recently read Tear Me Apart by JT Ellison and really enjoyed it, but for some reason, this one didn’t quite work for me. It was extremely long-winded at over 400 pages. The plot twists didn't shock me and most of them I saw coming. I wanted to love this one, but it very much read like most YA mysteries I’ve picked up before. 3/5 stars.

Thank you NetGalley, MIRA and JT Ellison for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

16 year old Ash Carr arrived at the exclusive all girl Goode School in Virginia fresh from her home in Oxford, Great Britain. She was a recent orphan whose parents had died tragically. Yet she wanted to keep this from her classmates and had even changed her name from Ashleigh Carlisle. Her goal was to get into Harvard and to get the best education possible. The dean was sympathetic and tried to help Ash adjust.

Her roommate, Camille, soon took a dislike to Ash and began to spread rumors about her. The head girl, a senior named Becca, took a liking to Ash and that only further alienated her from her sophomore classmates. Ash was not prepared for the Mean behavior and the hazing for entrance to secret societies. Then Ash’s roommate died in an apparent suicide and the police began investigating Ash. Within a few weeks, othersin the school died under mysterious circumstances. The dean was more concerned about preserving the good name of the School rather than controlling the students and this contributed to the problems.

This thriller has many surprises for the reader and at times you are not sure who is telling the truth and who is telling lies. It will keep you engaged till the very end.

Good Girls Lie takes place in an elite all-girls school situated in a quiet town in Virginia. These girls are hand picked by the Dean and the school operates using an honor code.
Right from the start we find out a student has died. With many unraveling twists and turns, we can start to piece together that not everything is as it seems at the school and not everyone is as, or who, they seem.
This book was well written for the most part, the characters well developed and the writing provided a good atmosphere.

Loved this book! It kept me guessing and I really got to know all the characters with their back stories. The setting was amazing and I could picture it in my head while reading.

"August. It is June now. I'll have to work fast. There's only one way for me to truly be free. I have two months to plan how they die."

This book has a spooky feel and is a great read for October. Ash is send from Oxford to the Goode school for girls in America. From the start it is clear she has a whole lot to hide, and the ending was not a big surprise, but that didn't spoil the book for me. The author created a beautifully creepy world with the Goode school and all the girls who go there. The author spends a lot of time setting up the climax and I really enjoyed reading it. The ending felt rushed .