This one kept me on the edge of my seat the WHOLE book. I have a group of patrons who love this type of title and can't wait to introduce it to them!

Name of Book: The Lies I Tell
Author: Julie Clark
Publisher: Sourcebook Landmark
Genre: Mystery Thriller
Pub Date: July 21, 2022
My Rating: 3.4 Stars!

Hmm is revenge sweet?
Journalist Kat Roberts believes Meg Williams ruined her life and she is going to get revenge!

Meg Williams, or Maggie Littleton, or is it Melody White are the same person ~ one con artist who going to make men pay for their wrongdoings.
Story is told from the POV of both Kat and Meg and as we learn more about them we start to wonder who the real con artist is.

I am totally in the minority in loving this. I belong to seven FB Book Groups and there have been so many amazing comments on this ~ I was super excited about reading it.
I still have Julie Clark’s “The Last Flight” on my list of wanting to read. So I liked that there was a blurb at the end of this about that novel.

I loved the Conversation with the Author as well as ‘About the Author’!

I did like the Epilogue and the statement … The difference between justice and revenge comes down to who’s telling the story”
Hmm perhaps the same is true …
”The difference between an amazing story and a so-so story is who is reading the story”
.... Just as some art you like and others you don’t however it doesn't mean the art you don't like isn't good art. Aren’t we lucky to have so many options?

I will read another story by author, Julie Clark.

Want to thank NetGalley and Sourcebook Landmark for this eGalley. This file has been made available to me before publication in an early form for an honest professional review.
Publishing Release Date scheduled for July 21, 2022

I enjoyed this one! It was refreshing to see more from the con artist story outside of the lies and deceit and more so about the people and circumstances that led them to where they are.

Julie Clark also does a great job of crafting an unreliable and unlikable narrator who you still kind of like and root for. That’s hard to do!

There were some moments in the middle that the plot slowed for me, but overall this is a fantastic follow up to The Last Flight that I think many readers will enjoy!

Another winner from Julie Clark! I was thoroughly engaged in the story, and was impressed by the intricately woven details. I eagerly await Ms. Clark’s next book. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

“Two women working together are a force to be reckoned with.”

Meg Williams is back, and Kat is ready to get her revenge. Meg has gone by many different names over the last few years, changing her identity with each con she pulls. Now she is back where she grew up and has chosen her real name, while planning her biggest con yet. Meanwhile, Kat is working to get close so she can expose Meg for who she really is.

Ok first of all, I started this book at 8pm figuring I would get through about half before heading to bed. NOPE. Finished the entire thing in one night. Secondly, badass females that take back their power from the men that abuse theirs? Hell yes, you know I am in! I absolutely loved following along while Kat tried to figure out what Meg’s endgame was, and trying to decipher why she chose the victims of her cons. This is one In recommend just diving into it. You will not be able to put it down! I promise!

Con artist Meg Williams and journalist Kat Roberts are each driven by a need to right the wrongs of the past. Personal agendas set them on a collision course that neither of them could have imagined, and when the women develop a working relationship of sorts, the stakes couldn't be higher. Will they be able to settle the score against those who have harmed them.? And will their individual quests for justice be worth the personal costs?

Julie Clark delivers another five-star twisty page-turner with characters who have been dealt bad hands by life, but whose wits and resourcefulness help them survive and thrive. Clark's fast-paced, well-plotted stories and plucky characters demonstrate her writing talent for thrillers that do not disappoint.

Meg Williams is a con artist who erases herself to be anything you need her to be and she always is helping a fellow woman while fleecing her target of everything she can get. Kat Roberts has been waiting 10 years to find Meg Williams again since she blames her for ruining her life and derailing her career as a journalist when she was investigating what was her first con which ended up exposing a School principal who preyed on his female students. As she insinuates herself with Meg and becomes her assistant through this latest con she ends up feeling sympathy for Meg and understanding why she is doing what she does. I really liked this book and loved the dynamic between the Meg and Kat and how it changes as she figures out the motive behind the cons that Meg perpetuates. The ending was great and I loved how everything panned out with the con and Meg.

Thanks to Sourcebooks Landmark and Netgalley for the complimentary copy of this book in e-book form. All opinions in this review are my own.

I read Julie Clark’s book, The Last Flight, last year and it was a 5-star read for me. The Lies I Tell is another hit! Thank you Julie Clark for another great story that centers around 2 main female characters.

Meg - the con-artist who goes by many different names, lives in different cities, develops different schemes that target men. But why?

Kat - the reporter/journalist who wants to expose Meg, write an article or possibly a book about Meg’s deception, lies and manipulation over the years. But why?

The 2 woman end up “befriending” each other. Is Meg exposed for who she really is? Do the lies catch up to her? Does Kat get her “story” after all?

Read and enjoy! Thank you Sourcebooks Landmark, NetGalley and Julie Clark for an advanced copy of The Lies I Tell in exchange for an honest review. I truly enjoyed this book! Publication date is 6.21.22 #theliesitell #NetGalley

What a wonderful read! The characters were strong and I loved their stories. Julie Clark has done it again. Thank you NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read this early.
I recommend this book.

Whoo hoo! Julie Clark does it again. It’s super smart literary suspense with a con woman with a purpose. I loved the set up the con woman and the journalist. And throughout the entire store you’re not sure who was conning who. The structure is super unique but I never felt confused once I got a hold of who the characters were and what it was all leaning toward. I have no complaints about this novel it’s got short chapters a cut me entertained and I read it over the course of an airplane ride!

This is the first book I have read by Julie Clark, and I am hooked on this author now! Loved the strong female characters and the cat and mouse dynamic. Con artist stories/shows are hot right now, and this one is a winner!

Who is Meg Williams? She is a con artist who tricks a high school principal, Cory Dempsey, into buying her a car and steals his money. She is in Reading, PA and is golfing with Phillip Montgomery who is about to divorce Renata Davies. Meg asks him to sell his $250,000 home to her for $20,000. Ten years later she is posing as a real estate agent and living with Scott Griffin. Kat Roberts is a journalist and is wondering what Meg is up to. She signs up to become a buyer and Scott warns her not to become friendly with Meg. The book is well plotted and the ending is satisfying. If you like books about con artists, then you will enjoy this book. I would like to thank NetGalley and Sourcebooks Landmark for a copy for an honest review.

This was so, so deliciously good! What a page-turner! Julie Clark has created an amazing psychological thriller with twist upon twist, and layer upon layer of suspense. This was psychologically brilliant in the way that these characters were created and manipulated. Readers are led to believe one thing at the beginning and something else completely over and over until the exciting end. Fans of Liv Constantine and Wendy Walker will devour this.

The Lies I tell is a cross between an unreliable narrator and a con artist with a conscience. See what happens when an unreliable narrator is not just unreliable but is straight out lying. She can become who you most want her to be and always finds a way to accomplish her goals.....but she often justifies her actions by righting wrongs and helping out those who the system doesn't favor. Or to put it another way "The difference between justice and revenge comes down to who's telling the story"

Sit back and enjoy the lies ;)

Meg is a woman on a mission who has no qualms hitting the big guys where it hurts to make sure they pay for their wrongdoings. Kat is a woman who has set out to expose Meg as the con artist she believes her to be. These two women enter a friendship of convenience, but just how easy it is to hide so many secrets?

I really enjoyed watching Meg's character develop throughout the course of this story. She is full of surprises and everytime you think you have her figured out, you find out something else.

Kat also did her fair share of surprising me. Trapped inside an engagement that anyone on the outside can see is not one that should turn into a marriage I outwardly cringed multiple times while wondering how she could be so naive.

There is definitely no shortage of drama or secrets in this story as it seems like everyone has something to hide. Will Kat and Meg each get the revenge they've set out to get? Or will there always have to be winners and losers in life?

Thank you Netgalley and SOURCEBOOKS Landmark for gifting me the opportunity to read this advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

This book was awesome!! All the same vibes as The Last Flight - empowering women and exploring female friendships - while weaving in the lies women tell each other and highlighting a shifty con artist. Said con artist is Meg Williams, who is back in LA with the mission to take down the man who destroyed her family years ago. In the time since, Meg has taken many different names, cheating despicable men out of their cash and disappearing as soon as she's gotten what she wanted. But now Kat Roberts is after her too, chasing the big story that will break her out of her journalism rut. Ten years ago, something Meg did ruined Kat's life, too--and Kat is determined to make her pay for it. The resulting dance between the two liars makes it hard to take sides, and readers will empathize with both characters. Meg's cons are epic, so anyone who is a sucker for a good con story (like me) will devour this.

3.5 - I really enjoyed both protagonists and thought their storylines were dually enticing and well flushed out. There was something lacking for me in the overall story and I think it might come down to the fact that Meg and Kat's stories really did not relate to one another. Kat blaming Meg for what Nate did to her seemed like such a flimsy redemption driver that even Clark dropped that as a motive. I really enjoyed the first part of the book with Cory much more than the second half, as once we got into the nitty gritty about the real estate scam, it felt a bit redundant.

I l0ved The Last Flight and wasn't sure if anything would compare, but THE LIES I TELL was phenomenal. I was hooked from the beginning to the end.

I really enjoyed this fast paced suspenseful mystery novel! I enjoyed both POV’s and appreciated how well they fit together. At times Kat came off a tad too naive, but I loved seeing the interactions between her and Meg! I did have one aspect of the plot I predicted, but plenty of others that were a surprise. Take two strong female protagonists, several acts of revenge, a few curveballs, plenty of suspense and a dash of friendship adds up to a complex and fun read! This would make an excellent thriller beach read and I think mystery suspense fans will really enjoy it! 4.5/5⭐️

Thanks to Sourcebooks Landmark and Netgalley for the DRC!

I really loved Julie Clark's last book, “The Last Flight”, so I had high expectations for her new novel, “The Lies I Tell”, and I wasn't disappointed, this was an excellent cat and mouse thriller. Once I really started it, this book sucked me in and I felt like I couldn't read it fast enough. "The difference between justice and revenge comes down to who's telling the story."-my favorite quote from this book and a great description of the novel. “The Lies I Tell” is a captivating story that hooks you in from the very first page. The writing was clear and concise, and created a fast-paced quick and easy read which is important in a good thriller. This is a story of revenge and how nothing is quite as it seems. It tells the story of two women, a con artist named Meg who learned to con people from an early age in order to protect herself and a woman named Kat who blames Meg for something that happened to her in the past. What I loved about this story is that neither character is good or bad. There is a lot of gray area between the two of them. Both main characters are fascinating, multi-faceted, very unique individuals and this book becomes a battle of wits between them as they vie for the upper hand, almost as though I was watching a fight. This story unravels in a way you would not imagine with sympathy for both women, and you’re not rooting for one character or the other to come out on top. You see the reasoning behind each character’s motivations and your feelings toward each character shifts as the story progresses. The author gives a perfect amount of backstory for each character which was important to the story. It jumps back and forth in time, but it never gets confusing or becomes a distraction. Meg’s long cons were so intriguing and detailed and confirmed for me that I’d never be able to pull anything like that off. I love how the ending takes the characters on paths that you would not have imagined for them in the beginning. The ending was open-ended which I don't always like, but it worked for this one. Julie Clark is going to be an author I keep my eye out for in the future! I would definitely recommend reading this one. Thanks to Netgalley, Julie Clark and Sourcebooks Landmark for the e-arc in exchange for my thoughts.