EXCERPT: The photograph tumbled across the grass, blown by a short, cool gust of November wind. It slowed for a moment and the girl in the image was flipped onto her face. Across the other side of the oval, behind the old camellia hedge near the north gate, the girl herself lay equally still. Her school uniform had been lifted, well above regulation length, by the playful bend in her left leg. Where her upper body had taken the blow, bone had sheared the fragile nerves of her spinal cord, leaving her neck thrust sideways. Her nose had bled only briefly, the blood trickling like a single tear-drop into the curve of her lip. A shadow loomed over the trench in which she lay. After a moment, it disappeared and all was still again.

ABOUT THIS BOOK: Twenty-five years after losing her friend Tessa in a tragic accident, Emma’s life is happy and settled. She rarely thinks about the day that Tessa fell to her death, or the secret that she made Emma swear to keep just hours before. But when her marriage implodes, Emma and her daughter find themselves unexpectedly moving into the headmaster’s former cottage on the grounds of her old school – Denham House. And it’s here she finds the photograph: an explicit image of Tessa, looking directly at the camera.

Between catching up with old friends Marlee and Clementine, who are home for a reunion, and the demands of single parenthood, Emma has plenty to distract her… but she can’t shake the image of the photograph. Or the thought that it’s proof of something she had long suspected: Dr Brownley, now headmaster, was involved with Tessa. Was it a mistake to keep quiet about what she knew?

Marlee and Clementine have their own complex feelings about returning to their hometown. And when Emma starts to question what really happened to Tessa, each woman must deal with the consequences of decisions they made all those years ago. Because the more Emma digs into the past, the more she discovers that everyone remembers it differently, and that the innocent schoolgirls she thought she knew are hiding some very big secrets.

MY THOUGHTS: After a good start, this read just fizzled out for me. It took the first third of the book for things to come together so that I could see the connection between the various characters, and then after that it all got a bit messy....right through to the end which was an anti-climax.

I believe that this is the author's debut novel, and she can write, as is demonstrated by the excerpt above and another which I will add shortly. I think it is more the lack of cohesion in the story that didn't work for me. That and the anti-climactic ending.

There was a lot going on in this book, perhaps a little too much at times. A word of advice? - keep it simple.

A lot is made of an email that Emma replied to all on....but really? It wasn't worth the amount of page space taken up by it. There were far more interesting angles that could have been explored. Emma is certain that Dr Brownley is responsible for Tessa's death. The cottage that she moves into when her marriage breaks up and where she finds the photo was, at the time of Tessa's death, occupied by Dr Brownley. BUT, he for a time had a flatmate there....an art teacher. A male art teacher. The photo is artfully posed. This could have been an interesting possibility, but the art teacher is never mentioned again, so I really can't see why he was mentioned in the first place.

While this is not a book I am going to recommend, this is an author I am going to keep an eye on. I believe she shows promise.

My favorite quote from Good Little Liars: 'Tessa was a chapter from a book she had read long ago. It was a crazy idea that you could take that book off the shelf to read it again and the words would be different.'

2.5 stars

THE AUTHOR: Sarah Clutton is an Australian author and former lawyer whose debut novel, Good Little Liars, mixes suspense and domestic drama with nuanced characters. Having majored in psychology in her original degree, Sarah is fascinated by people. How does the past shape us? Can we can learn empathy? What determines the outcomes when moral and legal boundaries collide?

Sarah's work earned her the Dymocks/Fiona McIntosh Commercial Fiction Scholarship in 2018, a coveted national award run by one of Australia's most successful commercial fiction authors and sponsored by Australia's largest book chain. An alumna of the Australian Writers' Centre novel writing course, and with a mostly-finished Master of Arts (in Writing) that she has no interest in finishing because she prefers making stuff up, Sarah lives with her family in the very pretty tourist town of Bowral, near Sydney. She has lived all over Australia, and if she didn't live in Bowral, she would live in Hobart, the most beautiful city she knows.

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Denham House School has been one of the foremost girl's school for over a century. Emma was once a pupil & now works in the administrative office there. As her 25th Reunion is coming up it brings back the memory of her friend Tessa, who died just before graduation. Emma has always had a nagging doubt that her death wasn't the accident it was claimed to be. Did the now headmaster have something to do with it? Intending to send an email to her friend Marlee, she accidentally sent it to everyone in her year- along with some very personal details about her marriage!

The story revolves around Emma, Marlee & Clementine. At first I got rather confused with all the characters & how they fitted together, but once I got that established I found this a good engaging read. It threw up a lot of surprises and kept the pages turning.

Thanks to Netgalley & the publisher for letting me read & review this book. I really enjoyed it.

Good Little Liars is fantastic and solid début from Australian author Sarah Clutton and as the book is set in Hobart, Tasmania, this satisfied the escapist in me!

A class reunion for women who graduated from Denham House School, an exclusive all-girls boarding academy, brings back memories of a classmate whose untimely death just days before graduation has haunted a few of them. Tessa Terrano's death was deemed an accident, but was it really?

This story was told from several viewpoints that offered alternative perspectives on what happened to Tessa and with oodles of drama, an ominous vibe and a large cast of characters, I really enjoyed reading it. It was fast-paced and skilfully told, the well written narrative pulling in all of the different strands, resulting in an extremely interesting tale.

I could relate to many of the characters such as Emma, Marlee and Harriet, whilst not always liking them or their behaviour. Emma works in the office of the well-respected school she once attended herself and is best friends with Marlee. Now an architect, Marlee has just moved back to Hobart from Melbourne. She is godmother to Emma’s daughter but her return is clouded by a secret she carries. Fifty-nine-year old Harriet is an acclaimed QC and her eldest daughter, Clementine, was born just after her mother left Denham House. Clementine is a famous artist now living in Prague and has returned to Hobart for the reunion and her mother's approaching sixtieth birthday. Clementine and Marlee were at Denham House together, along with Emma, graduating twenty-five years ago and Harriet herself attended Denham House over forty years ago on a scholarship.

Sarah Clutton has done a superb job in making them all believable and to be able to feel the emotions of each of them as I delved deeper into the story, further reinforced how well they have been brought to life.

This really was one delightfully dysfunctional story! I was gripped right from the start and was completely caught up in the drama of it all. It was a very emotive and intense read and although Tessa's death really wasn't the main focus of the story, it was still extremely compelling.The narration and the fast-paced plot had more than enough about them to make me want to keep reading. The writing really flowed in this wonderfully crafted, slightly disturbing tale. Full of complexity, the ending was most satisfying.

This was such a strong début from Sarah Clutton, who has a style all of her own. I think she is definitely an author to watch out for and I look forward to many more books from her. Overall, I'd say that this novel is a little gem and a book that I'm so pleased to have read.

I received a complimentary digital copy of this novel, at my own request, from Bookouture via NetGalley. This review is my own unbiased opinion.

I don’t remember final year at senior school being quite as dramatic as that of Clem, Marlee and Emma. We definitely didn’t have rumours of student/teacher affairs or a death at school.
Good Little Liars has a myriad of personalities in its cast, each with their own part to play both in the present and in the retelling of what happened that fateful day. The day that changed everything, when Tessa was found dead at school. And this day defines what happens to all the characters that I met throughout this story. Tessa’s death has an effect on all, the full extent not known until the end.
I loved the reconnection between the trio of Marlee, Emma and Clem. They were obviously tight at school but after so long, brought back together was like they’d never really been away. But growing up changes us all, life makes sure we aren’t the same people we are at 18 and Ms Clutton shows that as the women get reacquainted.
The tension Ms Clutton builds is subtle throughout but as the story climaxes, the question that has been bubbling in the background causing the tension suddenly breaks through and smashes out to shock. What happened to Tessa?! I kept trying to guess as the story developed. Was it just a tragic accident or was there something more sinister to this young woman’s demise?! I can’t possibly say whether I was right or wrong….
I wholeheartedly agree with the likening to Liane Moriarty; I’ve read a number of her books and Good Little Liars has the same feel to it for me. One hell of an achievement for this debut author!

This book wasn't as good as I thought it would be, it took me a while to read it because I just couldn't get into it, I liked reading everyone's little individual stories more than I was interested in what happened to Tessa, the ending didn't surprise me at all, it wasn't bad but also wasn't shocking


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Loved the plot, and the description was right up my alley. A classmate died 20 years ago, and Tessa never told the police the full story. Marlee has something to hide too. Family dynamics, relationships, and a whodunnit typically draw me in. However, this writing style just wasn’t for me. I can’t exactly pinpoint what I fed them like but overall I’ll give this one 3 stars.

I really enjoyed this. I loved the setting in Hobart, Tasmania and the story of the three women. Two had left for more exotic places and one has stayed in her hometown even working at the school she went too. A 25 year reunion reunites the girls. A good story with family at the heart. Lots of secrets and suspicion of who knows what happened to Tessa all those years ago. Good back stories to each character. I really enjoyed this family drama.

If there’s one thing that this Ginger Book Geek likes, it’s discovering new authors and Sarah Clutton is definitely a new author for me. Having enjoyed reading ‘Good Little Liars’ as much as I did, I can guarantee that I will be reading more of Sarah’s work in the future. I thoroughly enjoyed reading ‘Good Little Liars’ but more about that in a bit.
I can’t honestly say that I warmed to or took to any of the lead female characters. There was just something about each of them that set off little alarm bells for me. Their behaviour and attitudes just were at best irritating, at worst appalling. It soon becomes clear that there are things from the past that the ladies want to keep hidden. The fact that I didn’t take to any of the characters wasn’t necessarily a bad thing because it meant that I didn’t favour one over the other.
It took me a little while to get into this story but that has more to do with the fact that I was tired and cannot be taken as a reflection on the author. Once I got into the story, I found it extremely hard to put the book down. I think I must just be a nosy devil because I really enjoyed finding out about all the ladies and the particular skeletons that they had rattling around in their closets. I would pick up the book only intending to read for a short while but I would still be sat there over an hour later. I think I had a fomo- fear of missing out if I put the book to one side even for just a second. The pages of the book turned increasingly quickly as my desperation to find out how the story concluded and to find out the truth about what really happened. It seemed to take not very long at all to get through the story.
‘Good Little Liars’ is well written. The story is a bit more of a slow burner but that allows Sarah to slowly and subtly build the tension. I didn’t realise just how tense the story was until I looked and realised that I was on the edge of my seat. Sarah has a writing style that is easy to get used to and easy to get along with. Sarah certainly knows how to grab your attention from the start and she subtly draws you into the story. Once she has your attention, she will not let that attention wander. She keeps the characters interesting, the storylines dramatic and the plot twists unforgettable. Sarah has created an interesting and tightly woven plot.
Reading ‘Good Little Liars’ was certainly a pleasure and not a chore. I also felt as though I was on a bit of an at times scary and unpredictable rollercoaster ride with several twists and turns along the way. I did sort of guess some of the twists but others crept up and unexpectedly slapped me around the face with a wet fish. Well not literally because that would be a bit weird but you get the picture.
To conclude, it’s fair to say that I did enjoy reading ‘Good Little Liars’ and I would recommend it to other readers but especially to readers, who enjoy a slower paced sort of psychological thriller. I will definitely be reading more from Sarah Clutton in the future. The score on the Ginger Book Geek board is a very well deserved 4* out of 5*.

Definitely more of a drama than thriller but still enjoyable

If you’re looking to be shocked then this isn’t the one for you but if you enjoy family drama and relationship based stories then I think you’ll enjoy it.

The writing is good, the characters are interesting. The way they all intersect is clever. I liked the setting. There were a few things that I saw coming and some I didn’t but they weren’t related to the mystery. The first chapter (Emma’s intro) was hilarious and so cringeworthy, probably the best of the book.

The mystery is rather lackluster and doesn’t wrap up until basically the end of the book so just be patient and enjoy the ride. Really that’s the meat of the story anyway.

Thanks to NetGalley, the author and Bookouture for a copy in exchange for a review.

4-5 stars. This book was a chilling read for me. It had me in suspense and needing to know what was happening and how it would end. Very fast paced, original, and chilling. Highly recommend to those who enjoy the same books as me! I think that you are in for a roller coaster ride or emotions and shocks!
Will make sure I buzz it up to all my fellow friends!

An upcoming 25th year class reunion for the women who graduated from Denham House School, an exclusive all-girls boarding academy, brings back memories of a classmate whose untimely death just days before graduation has haunted some of them. Tessa Terrano's death was deemed an accident, but was it really?

The book is set in Hobart, Tasmania, and is told from several viewpoints that give alternate perspectives on what happened to Tessa. Emma Parsons, married to Phillip, has a 13-year-old daughter named Rosie, and works as staff at Denham House School. She's the one who's quite fixated on the Tessa question and feels that she has kept a secret about her death for far too long. Emma's best friend is Marlee Maples, an architect, has recently moved back to Hobart to take a new job. She knows a bit about what happened on the day Tessa died. Clementine Andrews is a famous artist and a classmate of theirs. She's the daughter of Harriet Andrews, a brilliant attorney. Harriet's brother, Dr. Jonathan Brownley is the head of school at Denham House. Whew! These are the main characters who are embroiled in the Tessa debacle. Emma, Marlee and Clementine were classmates back in 1993 when events took place. Fast forward 25 years when thoughts of their class reunion bring Tessa back to mind. What will happen if someone wants the truth to come out now? NO SPOILERS.

I'm sure I've muddled this review as it is so complicated with all the drama going on with this large cast of characters, but I really enjoyed the book. It was fast-paced and easy to keep them all straight once they'd been introduced. The author skillfully weaves the narrative pulling in all the strands to make an interesting tale. I found that I was able to relate to all of the characters even while not always liking how they behaved or how they were thinking. In fact, Tessa's death really isn't the main focus of the story as it's more a personality study with all the dysfunctional family situations that run amok. At times quite funny and at others very disturbing. I believe that the point of the novel must surely have to do with the strength of women. With friendship. With possibility.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for this e-book ARC to read and review. It definitely pushes all the buttons.

Upon discovering this story was set in Hobart, Australia, I decided I had to check it out. It's been a long time since I was in Tasmania but it is always refreshing to read something from my own country which aren't as prevalent as those in the UK or US. I didn't really check which genre it slotted into such was I in a rush to read it but from the synopsis, I assumed it was a bit of a mystery. And it was, in part, but I later discovered it was more chick lit...and I have to agree.

Set in Hobart, the story centres on three women - Emma, Marlee and Harriet - though it isn't till the end that we discover just how Harriet factored in. The three women, along with Harriet's daughter Clementine, are united by two factors - Denham House School for Girls and the death of their friend Tessa 25 years before. Tessa's death was ruled an accident but was it really? Or was it something more sinister?

GOOD LITTLE LIARS opens with an irresistible Prologue taking place 25 years prior to the actual story, which whets the appetite for something compelling.

We begin with Emma who works in the office of the prestigious school she once attended herself and pondering on the 25 year reunion which has been organised. Attempting to multitask between work and an email regarding the reunion, she is mortified to discover that she has inadvertently "replied all" with some incredibly personal and embarrassing information that was actually only meant for her best friend Marlee. Horrified at her inattention and now distracted from her work, Emma takes herself off home to unload with her husband Phil. Upon arriving home, it appears Phil is out but she notices that their cleaner Pia must be in the cottage out the back which they rent out for guest accommodation. For the second time that day Emma is once again mortified, this time to find Phil and Pia in all their naked glory. Shocked and furious, she packs a bag and heads to her dad's to calm down.

Marlee is an architect and has just moved back to Hobart from Melbourne. As Emma's best friend, she is her daughter's godmother, but her return is clouded by a secret she carries. Beginning a new job, Marlee is attracted to her new boss Ben and after some celebration drinks with the staff, she wakes to find herself in bed with him. Both are somewhat sheepish as Marlee vows not to repeat the incident. Then eight weeks later, after what she put down as a bout of flu, Marlee discovers she is pregnant...something which she thought was not possible after discovering she was infertile. Obviously not. Feeling somewhat vulnerable, the night with her boss is once again repeated at his place...but it is then overshadowed when his estranged wife, step daughter and daughter walk in on them the following morning with a cake for his birthday. Ben's estranged wife is furious and walks out. His daughter is shocked and angry. Only his step daughter, Clementine, finds it amusing. Marlee, however, is mortified and embarrassed.

Harriet is an acclaimed QC, the youngest woman to achieve silk. At 59 years of age, she has seen a lot but nothing could prepare her for walking in on her estranged husband with a woman her daughter's age. Clementine and Marlee were at Denham House together, along with Emma, graduating 25 years ago. Harriet herself attended Denham House over forty years ago on a scholarship...and she owes the school everything for the education she received and all that has achieved since. But Harriet also has a secret. And has stopped at nothing to keep it hidden. Having fallen pregnant when she was still at school and creating embarrassment for her own mother, to what lengths did she go to remain at Denham House?

Then there is Clementine. She is Harriet's eldest daughter, born just after her mother left Denham House. She is a free spirit, a famous artist now living in Prague and nothing at all like her mother had tried to raise. Clementine has returned to Hobart for the reunion and her mother's approaching 60th birthday.

At the centre of this story is the school- Denham House for Girls. All women had been students there. Emma now works there. Harriet's brother Jon Brownley, who had been the school's newest teacher 25 years ago, is now headmaster there. And now, with her marriage imploding, Emma lives in one of the staff cottages there - the very same cottage, it appears, that Jon Brownley had lived in when he was a young teacher at Denham House.

But it is soon after moving into the cottage that Emma finds an old photograph hidden in the fireplace - an explicit photo of Tessa, staring boldly at the camera and dated the day before she died. For Emma, this photo is evidence of what she had always suspected - that Jon Brownley had been involved with Tessa. A sackable offence, not to mention illegal, if caught. Had Tessa threatened to expose him? Had he killed her to keep her quiet? Emma had seen them arguing on the day Tessa died and now she is wondering if what she saw that day reveals that Tessa's death 25 years ago was not an accident?

But as Emma begins to dig deeper into the past, she discovers that everyone remembers the past differently...and not everyone wants the past raked up.

While it was an interesting premise, GOOD LITTLE LIARS was nothing like I expected it to be. In fact, I found it more focused on everyone's imploding marriages or relationships rather than Tessa's death 25 years before. Admittedly, I didn't check the genre before diving in and just assumed by the synopsis that it was suspense/mystery/thriller. However, it was more of a chick lit drama with some mystery thrown in. I guess that's why I found it incredibly slow to begin with, wondering when it was going to get to the past and find out what happened, particularly considering that was what I was reading it for.

But I did enjoy the book somewhat...I was just disappointed that it was not the twisty thriller that the synopsis promises. The reveal, when it happened, was a bit of an anti-climax, though it does tie everything together rather neatly as a result.

GOOD LITTLE LIARS is an enjoyable read and is perfect for those who enjoy family dramas and a good chick lit novel with a bit of mystery thrown in.

I would like to thank #SarahClutton, #NetGalley and #Bookouture for an ARC of #GoodLittleLiars in exchange for an honest review.

First, I want to thank Sarah Clutton, Bookouture and NetGalley for providing me with this book so I can bring you this review.

Sarah Clutton’s debut book Good Little Liars is definitely a gripping, emotional, page-turner with a breathtaking twist. It seemed as if each character had so much drama going on more so than a prime-time soap opera! This book really kept you on your toes with all the twists and turns.

The cover design for this book is one of the most beautiful covers I have ever seen. It was simple but so elegant. Kudos to the graphic designer on this cover.

Sarah had an incredibly hooking prologue that I loved. However, it was disappointing that it didn’t immediately carry on to the first chapter. It took me a while to get as into it as the prologue. The story eventually picked up and the pace was fast and exciting.

One huge theme in this book is infidelity and how husbands can’t keep it in the pants! However, I could not stop laughing when they got caught in the act! Oh those were good scenes!!!

I loved the mystery surrounding who killed Tess from when they were in high school (ironically the year I graduated). The case had never been solved years later. Being that their high school reunion was coming up it was all being brought up again.

Sarah had so many amazing storylines that weaved into the main one. There was literally something in this book for everyone. She even covered a shared kiss between two women that lead to a confession.

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a huge Prince Harry fan (we are both gingers) for many reasons! So when there was a line in the book about him and if he was still single I was smiling ear to ear!!

My thanks to Bookouture for an eARC via NetGalley of Sarah Clutton’s ‘Good Little Liars’ in exchange for an honest review.

It is set in 2018 Tasmania and focused on Denham House, a prestigious boarding school for the children of Tasmania’s oldest and wealthiest families. A 25-year reunion is coming up and Emma Parsons, who now works at the school, remains haunted by the accidental death of her best friend, Tessa, in 1993.

When her marriage implodes Emma moves with her daughter into the old headmaster’s cottage on the school grounds. She is shocked when she discovers an explicit photograph of Tessa. It stirs up her suspicion that Tessa was involved with her then teacher, who is now the school’s headmaster.

The narrative moves smoothly between various characters: Emma and another old classmate, Marlee, now an architect, and finally Harriet, sister of the headmaster and mother of Clementine, another school friend of Emma and Marlee. There are also the occasional flashback to 1993.

This is a strong debut from Clutton, an Australian author following in the tradition of Liane Moriarty in creating twisty, character-driven domestic noirs.

‘Good Little Liars’ proved a highly engaging read with a cast of interesting characters. I look forward to reading her future books.

Set in Tasmania, Emma works for the admin department of Denham House School. She’s helping with the schools 25 year reunion when she sends an email intended for her friend Marlee, but she’s hit reply all by mistake. She’s sent an old school photo and some personal remarks about her husband and gives the impression she knows more about how her school friend Tessa had died.

Mortified, she leaves work early, only to arrive home and find her husband naked with their cleaner, Pia.

Meanwhile, Marlee has a new job in an architect’s office, and has a bit of a crush on her new boss, Ben, whose daughter has just been found in possession of drugs and could lose her job at the school.

Clementine, a successful artist is reluctantly returning to Hobart, just for the reunion.

There is the mystery surrounding Tessa’s death, but I felt this is primarily about the lives, relationships and drama’s of the three friends. It’s told with chapters from each of the main character’s perspectives and moves through past and present events to build the story. Not the fastest paced, but it helps build the characters and reveals the secrets that have been kept for years. A very engaging mystery drama.

Thank you to Bookouture, the author and NetGalley for a free copy of the ebook. This is my in honest, unbiased review.

This story centers around an exclusive girls’ school called Denham House School. It has been in place for many years and lots of girls are proud to say they attended school there. Many of the characters went to the school and stayed in the area.

Emma, age 25, and the mother of Rosie, works in the Administration Office of the school and inadvertently sent an email to everyone instead of just one person that contained her personal comments about the upcoming class reunion and her thoughts on some of the people who will attend. She also mentions that she knows who killed Tessa, a fellow student at the time they attended the school. She is so mortified that now she feels she cannot attend the reunion herself. Back home that evening, she finds her husband, Phillip, naked with their house cleaner, Pia.

Harriet, age 59, is a successful attorney and former student. She has an older daughter named Clementine, a famous artist who lives a quirky life. She also has a younger teenage daughter named Scarlett who has just gotten into trouble at her place of employment during her gap year. Harriet is married to Ben, a renowned architect, who has just announced that he wants to separate. Harriet is also the sister of Jonathan, the headmaster of Denham House School.

Marlee works with Ben and knows the other characters in this story. Believe me, it was hard keeping up with who was who. There is a lot of bed hopping and unhappy relationships not only between spouses, but between parents and their children.

But let’s get to the main thing here - the murder of Tessa. I kept waiting for some breathtaking revelation of what really happened to the girl and it was a real let-down. I am giving this book 3 stars simply because the bed-hopping shenanigans made me shake my head in amusement. Sorry. Not my cup of tea.

Copy provided by NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.

Enjoyed this domestic thriller. So much family drama. From love to hate, obsessions and deadly secrets. The extreme complications of a family, it’s love and secrets.
Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book.

The 25th class reunion is coming up and the classmates are still dealing with the startling death of a classmate just days before graduation. Do people know more than they are letting on?
I struggled to read this story. It was more focused on the girls lives today rather than uncovering the past. The characters were enjoyable but their stories were disjointed. Some of the storylines did not fit with the rest of the story at all. The writing is very good but the story did not draw me in.

Thank you Netgalley for sending me this arc. I will be reviewing this book in the near future with an honest rating and review.

Let's just plan a reunion. Attend it. And have a good time. That should have worked for Emma. But, even after twenty-five years, the death of her friend Tessa still haunts her. Not only is the loss still devastating, Emma kept a secret that just might have to finally be revealed.

For starters, Emma is now staying in the very cottage the school headmaster used to live in. In this cottage Emma found an explicit picture of Tessa all of those years ago. This picture, coupled with the secret Emma as kept, makes her worry that Dr. Jon Brownley might have been responsible for Tessa's death.

Meanwhile, Emma is trying to catch up with old friends Marlee and Clementine. All three women are at crossroads in their life, and this reunion is bringing about bad memories and difficult feelings. This story fluctuates between the drama in each woman's life now, while at the same time snippets of the past are revealed. As this is done, secrets are slowly revealed.

Good Little Liars is a mix of family drama, angst, lies and secrets. This was a captivating story that was set in Tasmania, and that made it even more interesting to read. I love the way the author described the area and this led to a nice feeling while reading a very well-written story.

Many thanks to Bookouture and to NetGalley for this ARC for review. This is my honest opinion.