i went into this one with high expectations but it fell a bit short for me. i really like that it was set in a neighbourhood & it felt like every single person was hiding a big secret which made it more interesting. i love thrillers that have big, shocking twists & there just wasn’t any of that for me in this book. i like the ending but it felt a bit rushed. even though this book wasn’t anything crazy for me, i would recommend it as a simple, entertaining & easy to follow thriller

thank you to Netgalley & Penguin Random House canada for the eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review!

A nine year old girl goes missing and there was many different suspects and witnesses that come forward as the story progresses. But, who is telling the truth and who..is lying?
The story was interesting, I had literally no idea who was responsible for the missing girl. All the characters being unreliable made the twist all the more shocking to me once it was finally revealed!
I have another book by shari lapena so now I’m looking forward to reading it as well!

Shari Lapena has done it again! Her new book Everyone Here is Lying is gripping, propulsive and guaranteed to keep you up way past your bedtime.

William Wooler is a well-respected doctor. He has two children with his attractive wife. Together in a lovely home in Stanhope, a safe neighbourhood where nothing ever happens. Only everything isn’t quite as it seems.

William is having an affair. An affair that has ended that afternoon. Craving peace and quiet, he heads home. But when he discovers his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, is home early from school, William loses his temper.

Later, Avery is declared missing…

I can’t tell you some of my favourite aspects of this novel without revealing spoilers. So I’ll say this, if you enjoyed Shari Lapena’s other books, you will love this one. It is equally as anxiety inducing as her others. Oh, and the classic Lapena twist? It is well and truly in affect with this one.

I love that Shari Lapena’s books are written in the present tense. It makes the novel feel immediate and alive. I also appreciate her ability to dip in and out of point of views frequently without it feeling the least bit jarring or confusing for the reader.

I’m not sure if there is anyone out there who fits this category… But! If you haven’t read anything by Shari Lapena and you enjoy thrillers, I highly recommend giving this one a go! And then why not read the rest of them? An Unwanted Guest is my favourite. It brings to mind Agatha Christie’s manor house mysteries, only in a contemporary setting and with — dare I say it — even more twists than a Christie.

Doubleday Canada provided me with a copy of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. To both, thank you thank you thank you! I’m thrilled to have the privilege of reading this book ahead of its release date!

Everyone Here is Lying comes out today, 25 July. Happy Publication Day Shari Lapena!

On the outside, William Wooler looks like a devoted and loving husband and father. Little does anyone know, he's been having an affair that is, until his partner ended the affair this afternoon. He returns home desperate for alone time, to deal with his emotions and get his anger in check. When he notices his 9 year old daughter who has behavioral issues is unexpectantly home, he loses his temper and leaves the house. Not long after, she's reported missing.

Everyone Here is Lying is twisty and suspenseful, page turner of a domestic thriller told via alternating POVs and short chapters. The drama and secrets revealed were juicy which I love in a domestic thriller and Shari certainly knows how to drop them in and shake up the entire story. Highly recommend it!

This was a fun book to buddy read and I can't wait to chat about it with @elliottreads!

Thank you, @penguinrandomca & @netgalley for this ARC in exchange for a review.

Thank you NetGalley for an ARC of one of my most anticipated releases of the year. This did not disappoint.

Everyone is lying in this book and I love the way Shari Lapena is able to introduce more and more characters without confusing the reader. ( I sometimes find thrillers with a lot of characters to be too confusing.).

Avery has gone missing. The reader knows a few things that the police doesn’t know at the beginning but you are learning most of this stuff about Avery, her family, her friend Jenna, her dad’s affair, the mistresses family and it just unfolds from there.

I love when you find out one thing and then a few chapters later you find out that’s false. And the ending did that in a way that in my opinion was very satisfying.

This author is one of my fave, her writing is always so captivating. This book is no different, I was hooked right from the start. While there were a lot of characters, it was easy to tell them apart and it worked for this story. I loved how everyone was unreliable and guilty of something. The ending was a little abrupt and I felt a bit disappointed that it was left so open-ended.. I even thought I was missing a few pages from my book at first. Overall it was a really good read but it was definitely heavy at times so I suggest checking out the trigger warnings before picking it up.

Thank you to the publisher and @netgalley for providing a free advanced copy of this book and ebook in exchange for an honest review.

Shari Lapena is typically a guaranteed auto buy, as her books are usually enjoyable, quick reads. While they won’t be super memorable or top my favourites lists, I always enjoy them and read them fairly quickly.

Everyone Here Is Lying was unfortunately a huge miss for me. I think maybe I’m in the minority here, but the plot didn’t sit well with me at all. To avoid spoilers I won’t go into many details, but it just gave me the ick and I found myself grimacing through most of the book. The ending left a LOT to be desired, which was just another hit to this book. It was still a fairly binge-able read, but all the characters were horrendous and the plot was not my favourite. Check it out and let me know if we have the same opinion or if it worked for you!

An affair ends.
A young girl goes missing.
A community rallies together to bring her home- but how well do you really know your neighbours?
As the clock ticks on, 9 year old Avery Wooler’s chance of survival diminishes and her family’s desperation reaches all time highs.

This domestic thriller was intriguing from the get go- I will admit that I somehow missed it was about a young child going missing, or I probably would have skipped this one as I don’t handle the topic well. That being said, this was presented in a way that was mysterious and unexpected, but not devastating.

The amount of secrets that are uncovered just on one small street in a community was so interesting- the threads that tied strangers together, the secrets that had to be held back to protect someone’s safety- all seemingly ‘innocent’ separately but together being incredibly troubling.

I really enjoyed this one!

The only thing that prevented me from giving 5 stars, was that Avery’s character- I kept getting distracted from the storyline because to me, a lot of her decisions and thoughts didn’t seem in line with a 9 year old. This could be one of her exceptionalities, which Lapena does a good job of presenting while also leaving a bit ambiguous, but for me, it was a bit distracting.

This one was hard to put down - I read it in a day . It was fast paced and well everyone was lying 🤷🏼‍♀️ instead of the traditional POVs, this was told almost like a movie - where we would switch from one scene/ character to the next even within the same chapter - I make is sound complicated but it worked really well !

4.5 ⭐️

Thank you for this arc in exchange for an honest review!

I have been seeing so much hype around this book on Instagram, sadly I don't think this book lives up to it.

I really enjoyed the dual POVs, they gave me insight into each character's thoughts and how they were affected during Avery's disappearance. The characters were built very well and were believable. Except Avery's character.

I feel that this book is trying too hard to be The Push by Ashley Audrain. Avery is written as a brilliant mastermind despite being nine years old. This plot point could have been done really well, however it easn't properly executed in this book. We learnt through other character POVs that Avery was a difficult child that often acted out, but I never got the sense that she was sly, cunning, or evil just a misbehaved child. I feel that the ending was not properly foreshadowed throughout the novel and as a consequence, I felt that it was unbelievable and even laughable at parts.

This was my very first Shari Lapena book, though I’ve heard good things. I’m all for picking up a tried and true thriller author and Everyone Here Is Lying did not disappoint.

The family at the centre of this story is William and Erin and their children Avery and Michael. William is a well-respected doctor, however, he is having an affair with a neighbour and mom of two, Nora. On the day that Nora decides to prioritize her own family and break it off with William, William returns home to find Avery, his difficult nine-year-old daughter at home, when she was supposed to be at school. William loses his temper and leaves, only to get a phone call from his wife later saying that Avery is missing. Where is Avery? This book is a family psychological suspense with some police procedural tied in, and it is clear from the title that none of the characters are meant to be trusted.

I read this as an eARC so the typical thriller book spacing isn’t as clear when flipping through an uncorrected proof file compared to flipping through short chapters and lots of blank space on pages. However, I was still able to zoom through this book. The writing is clearly designed to be quick and snappy, keeping readers in as many parts of the story as possible at any given time.

I personally struggled with the omniscient narration that quickly jumped between points of view. While it kept the story moving, I really struggled to follow it at times and would find myself going back to situate myself in a new character’s perspective. I am seeing a lot of praise for this literary device in reviews, but for me, it didn’t work as well. Perhaps there weren’t as many visual cues that a POV change was happening in my eARC and I would have experienced a smoother reading process with the published book, so take my complaint with a few grains of sand.

With the quick writing, there is no real very little space for character development, but what is explored in the characters of this book is the unlikability of characters. We are invited into the family dynamics of multiple households in this neighbourhood and it becomes clear that families are made up of flawed individuals who all have a perspective on a story that centres themselves. Even without agreeing with their choices, readers can experience some empathy for families whose lives are being torn apart, in at least some part due to the consequences of their own actions.

Dr. William Wooler is the character who ties much of this story together, and so his name is mentioned often in reviews for this book, but one common thread I saw throughout the telling of this story was how isolated yet connected the women in the book were. Erin and Nora are of course set up at odds with one another, as one is William's wife and one is his mistress. They are even physically at odds in some scenes of the book, and yet these two women are experiencing similar things throughout the book. There is Jenna’s mom, who points fingers in order to protect her own children, and there is Adam’s mom who, while mostly keeping to herself can understand Erin’s experience raising a neurodivergent child. Even the female detective seems to have a different level of empathy than her male counterpart and these two police perspectives are often compared. What we see through this theme is a blurring of who is safe and who to trust.

In fact, perhaps the resolution of this theme does show some character development, despite what I wrote above. The home that Erin walks into at the end of the book (before the epilogue) represents this growth. And before even the end, it was her choosing to leave her home and go speak to other women that have one of the biggest positive impacts in this book. I appreciate that Shari Lapena seems to be doing more in this book than just giving us a plot, and I like what she's trying to show us through this theme.

I really did like this book's critical yet empathetic examination of motherhood, but the truth is, it is also just a good thriller.

I am so happy that I discovered Shari Lapena books. I loved The Couple Next Door, Everyone is Lying did not disappoint. This fast-paced mystery thriller had me guessing until the end.

If you are looking for a good summer read and love a domestic psychological thriller with short chapters and lots of suspense with plot twists, then I recommend this book to you!

Thank you #netgalley for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I have been a fan of Shari's work for several years now. This book is no exception to her incredible work and storytelling ability.

That said, this newest release veered off the usual course for me. The ending of an otherwise interesting and well developed story, felt incredibly rushed and it fell flat.
I am not usually able to predict the endings of Shari's books, which makes them all the more appealling. This time around, I was left wanting more and wanted a different ending.


Thank you NetGalley for providing me with an ARC.
All that aside, I was up half the night reading as per usual. I devour her writing style and know that I'm in for a psychological thrill ride. I did truly enjoy this book overall, I just felt slightly disappointed as this is the first book by this author that I have ever not been head over heels for.

Everyone Here is Lying – and they are – was a great, easy read. I flew through it, thanks to Shari Lapena’s great writing. Although I did figure out the twist before the reveal, it was still a bit surprising and different than what I thought it was going to be. The characters were all well written and easily distinguishable from one another, and I like that we got to get inside the minds of quite a few of them. The built-up suspense around where Avery might be, who took her and possibly hurt her was great, as was the slow unraveling of secrets and lies people were telling. I love this genre of books and was happy to receive a copy. Cannot wait to go back and read all the Shari Lapena books I’ve missed out on!

Thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Random House Canada for a digital ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Everyone Here Is Lying makes it clear that you can't trust anyone. Small towns have the biggest of secrets. As the detectives search for a nine-year-old girl who has gone missing, it's clear that this case is anything but ordinary. The big question is which secrets are linked to the disappearance, and which secrets are just secrets that could have stayed buried?

My heart goes out to Erin Wooler in this book. She doesn't just have to deal with her missing daughter, but also her adulterous husband. It's been hard enough that she's dealing with the judgment of having a difficult daughter. I would actually love a sequel to see how she deals with all the other secrets that come out at the end.

In fact, my only complaint about this book is that it's too short. The ending is a little rushed, and I really want to see the aftermath.

Everyone Here is Lying was a book I had difficulty putting down. The story follows the Wooler family as they search for their missing daughter - but it seems everyone is keeping secrets on their street. As the pieces of the story slowly unfold, I was left guessing and second guessing what had happened - I truly did not see the ending coming.
While not my traditional thriller read, I would certainly recommend to anyone who loves suspense and mystery.
Thank you NetGalley for the ARC.

3 stars for me. Grateful to have been given the opportunity to read this ARC..
I really enjoyed the first 2/3 of the book. The buildup was great . The part that let me down was the twist was predictable and a let down.
I figured I'd give it a chance to see it through incase that was a red herring and not the twist, however it was.
I am still interested in checking out the authors other works
I just have high expectations for thriller / mystery books.

I can always count on Shari Lapena for a twisty domestic suspense story and this one fit the bill.

Dr. William Wooler is having an affair with a colleague and neighbour, meeting up at a local motel weekly. This week however, the woman ends things with William and instead of going back to his job at the hospital he decides to go home early knowing no one will be there. Once there he discovers his nine year old daughter Avery home from school early. Avery is a difficult child. Mature for her age (reads like a 13 year old IMO), she has behavioural issues and is oppositional. They have words and William goes too far. William leaves the home and when Avery’s brother Michael comes home from school, he can’t find Avery and calls his mother. Avery is reported as missing and a search begins. Each of the neighbours are interviewed and each have things to hide.

This one is part police procedural and part slow reveal. I hooked onto one sentence early on and made a guess which turned out to be correct but it could just as easily have gone the other way and if I hadn’t been reading very carefully and taking notes, would likely have missed it.

I have read several of this Canadian author’s books and enjoyed them all. If you are looking for a mostly plot driven story and like deductive puzzles then this one might be perfect for you! I cannot wait to read what Lapena writes next.

Thank you to @netgalley and @penguinrandomca for an ARC in exchange for my honest opinions. everyone Here is Lying publishes July 25, 2023.

William is having an affair with a volunteer at the hospital he works at, or was. After Nora ends the affair William heads home for amount of alone time before his two kids get home from school. However, as he walks in the house he’s instantly aware his 9 year old Daughter, who is incredibly difficult and problematic, after getting in a disagreement with how she walked home alone and she mouths off, he gets so enraged he slaps her knocking her to the floor, after apologizing profusely he storms out of the house to cool down. Except less than an hour later he gets a call from his wife. Avery is missing.

This one left me a little uneasy and unsettled, mostly in a good way. It wasn’t a high paced jump scare thriller but instead a slow burning psychological analysis on a 9 year old and if she’s simply the way she is because of how she was raised. I couldn’t put this down and while everything flowed naturally and where I expected it to. I just can’t get it out of my head. Was Avery the way she was solely because of how her father reacted to her behaviours or something more.

Ahhhh Shari Lapena has done it again! Tuesday this book baby is out into the world and you need to preorder it right now so you can dive in immediately. There are so many twists and turns that you’ll get to the end of this thriller and be sooo surprised and enthralled it’ll make your head spin and want to read it again to pick up on the clues you might have missed!

This is a must read for July in thrillers! Get it now!

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for an ARC!